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Emplastus antiquus
| †Emplastus antiquus Temporal range: Burdigalian, Early Miocene Radoboj, Croatia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Genus: | Emplastus |
| Species: | †E. antiquus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Emplastus antiquus (Mayr, 1867)
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Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Radoboj, Croatia (Burdigalian, Early Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †antiquus. †Liometopum antiquum Mayr, 1867b: 60, pl. fig. 10 (q.) YUGOSLAVIA (Miocene).
- Combination in †Emplastus: Dlussky & Putyatina, 2014: 242.
- Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 163; Handlirsch, 1907: 870; Shattuck, 1994: 128; Bolton, 1995b: 247; Dlussky & Putyatina, 2014: 242 (redescription).
Description
References
- 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.
- Mayr, G. 1867b. Vorläufige Studien über die Radoboj-Formiciden, in der Sammlung der k. k. geologischen Reichsanstalt. Jahrb. K-K. Geol. Reichsanst. Wien 17: 47-62 (page 60, pl. fig. 10 queen described)
- Perfilieva, K.S. 2022. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from localities of the Russian Far East (Amgu, Velikaya Kema). Paleontological Journal, 56(4), 412–425 (doi:10.1134/s0031030122040086).