Dolichoderus tavridus
†Dolichoderus tavridus Temporal range: Middle Miocene Malyi Kamyshlak, Kerch, Crimea, Russian Federation | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
Tribe: | Dolichoderini |
Genus: | Dolichoderus |
Species: | †D. tavridus |
Binomial name | |
†Dolichoderus tavridus Perfilieva, Dubovikoff & Dlussky, 2017 |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Malyi Kamyshlak, Kerch, Crimea, Russian Federation (Middle Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †tavridus. †Dolichoderus tavridus Perfilieva, Dubovikoff & Dlussky, 2017: 398, fig. 6, pl. 7, fig. 5 (wing) RUSSIA (Crimea, Miocene).
Type Material
Holotype. Forewing; Crimea, Kerch Peninsula, Malyi Kamyshlak; Middle Miocene, Upper Tarkhanian (16.5-15.5 Ma bp) (Arthropod Laboratory of the A.A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, no. 4204/30).
Description
References
- Perfilieva, K.S., Dubovikoff, D.A. & Dlussky, G.M. 2017. Miocene ants from Crimea. Paleontological Journal 51 (4): 391-401. (Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 2017 (4): 54-64.)
- Radchenko, A.G. 2023. A New Ant Genus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Late Eocene Rovno Amber. Zoodiversity, 57(4), 323–336 (doi:10.15407/zoo2023.04.323).