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Emplastus
| †Emplastus Temporal range: 38–16 Ma Priabonian, Late Eocene to Burdigalian, Early Miocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Genus: | †Emplastus Donisthorpe, 1920 |
| Type species | |
| Emplastus emeryi, now Emplastus britannicus | |
| Diversity | |
| 15 fossil species (Species Checklist) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK (Priabonian, Late Eocene); Bolshaya Svetlovodnaya, Sikhote-Alin, Russia (Priabonian, Late Eocene) and Radoboj, Croatia (Burdigalian, Early Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †EMPLASTUS [Dolichoderinae]
- †Emplastus Donisthorpe, 1920: 86. Type-species: †Emplastus emeryi, by original designation.
- †Emplastus in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Donisthorpe, 1920: 86; Bolton, 1994: 164.
- †Emplastus incertae sedis in Dolichoderinae: Ward, et al. 2010: 362.
- †Emplastus in Dolichoderinae: Bolton, 2003: 87; Dlussky & Putyatina, 2014: 242; Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 414.
- †Emplastus catalogue: Bolton, 1995b: 188.
- †Emplastus references: Dlussky & Putyatina, 2014: 242 (diagnosis).
References
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 164, Emplastus in Ponerinae, Ponerini)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 188, Emplastus in Ponerinae, Ponerini)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 87, Emplastus in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini)
- Dlussky, G.M. & Perfilieva, K.S. 2014. Superfamily Formicoidea Latreille, 1802. In: Antropov, A. V., Belokobylskij, S. A., Compton, S. G., Dlussky, G. M., Khalaim, A. I., Kolyada, V. A., Kozlov, M. A., Perfilieva, K. S. & Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2014. The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 104(3-4):335-446.
- Dlussky, G.M. & Putyatina, T.S. 2014. Early Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Radoboj, Croatia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 272, 237-285.
- Donisthorpe, H. 1920b. British Oligocene ants. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 9(6): 81-94 (page 86, Emplastus in Ponerinae, *Donisthorpe, H. 1920b. British Oligocene ants. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 9(6): 81-94 (page 86, Type-species: Emplastus emeryi, by original designation)
Ponerini)