Drymomyrmex fuscipennis

†Drymomyrmex fuscipennis Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Genus:	Drymomyrmex
Species:	†D. fuscipennis
Binomial name
†Drymomyrmex fuscipennis Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Distribution

This taxon was described from Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Priabonian, Late Eocene).

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• †fuscipennis. †Drymomyrmex fuscipennis Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 136, fig. 56 (q.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). **Théobald, 1937b: 216 (w.m.).
  • Combination in Camponotus: Dlussky, 1997: 59.
  • Combination in *Drymomyrmex: Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1036 (by implication as *Drymomyrmex reinstated as genus).
  • Status as species: Théobald, 1937b: 216; Bolton, 1995b: 183.

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).