Drymomyrmex claripennis
†Drymomyrmex claripennis Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Genus: | Drymomyrmex |
Species: | †D. claripennis |
Binomial name | |
†Drymomyrmex claripennis Wheeler, W.M., 1915 |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Priabonian, Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †claripennis. †Drymomyrmex claripennis Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 138 (q.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). Combination in Camponotus: Dlussky, 1997: 59; in †Drymomyrmex: Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1036 (by implication as †Drymomyrmex reinstated as genus).
Description
References
- Radchenko, A. 2021. New species of the fossil ant genus Drymomyrmex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae) from the late Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine). Palaeoentomology 4: 544-549 (doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.4.6.4).
- Wheeler, W. M. 1915i [1914]. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schr. Phys.-Ökon. Ges. Königsb. 55: 1-142.