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Dolichomyrma longiceps
| †Dolichomyrma longiceps Temporal range: Turonian, Cretaceous Kzyl-Zhar, Kazakhstan | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Uncertain |
| Genus: | Dolichomyrma |
| Species: | †D. longiceps |
| Binomial name | |
| †Dolichomyrma longiceps Dlussky, 1975 | |
The taxonomomic placement of this species is uncertain and it is currently considered incertae sedis in Hymenoptera, Aculeata.
Distribution
This taxon was described from Russia (Cretaceous).
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †longiceps. †Dolichomyrma longiceps Dlussky, 1975: 121, fig. 133 (w.) RUSSIA (Cretaceous).
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 177; Grimaldi, Agosti & Carpenter, 1997: 5.
- Excluded from Formicidae, incertae sedis in ACULEATA: Borysenko, 2017: 20 (by implication as genus excluded).
Description
References
- Borysenko, L.H. 2017. Description of a new genus of primitive ants from Canadian amber, with the study of relationships between stem- and crown-group ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insecta Mundi 570: 1–57.
- Dlussky, G. M. 1975a. Superfamily Formicoidea Latreille, 1802. Family Formicidae Latreille, 1802. Pp. 114-122 in: Rasnitsyn, A. P. (ed.) Hymenoptera Apocrita of Mesozoic. Tr. Paleontol. Inst. Akad. Nauk USSR 147:1-134. (page 121, fig. 133 worker described)