Emplastus gurnetensis

†Emplastus gurnetensis Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl ↓ Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Genus:	Emplastus
Species:	†E. gurnetensis
Binomial name
†Emplastus gurnetensis (Donisthorpe, 1920)

Distribution

This taxon was described from Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK (Priabonian, Late Eocene).

Nomenclature

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

• †gurnetensis. Dolichoderus gurnetensis Donisthorpe, 1920: 88, pl. 5, fig. 7 (q.) GREAT BRITAIN (Oligocene).
  • Combination in †Emplastus: Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 82.
  • Status as species: Shattuck, 1994: 54; Bolton, 1995b: 174; Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 416 (redescription).

References

• 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.
• Donisthorpe, H. 1920b. British Oligocene ants. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 9(6): 81-94 (page 88, pl. 5, fig. 7 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).