Fallomyrma transversa

†Fallomyrma transversa Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Rovno amber, UkrainePriabonian, Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Bitterfeld amber, Sachsen-Anhalt, GermanyPriabonian, Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Danish-Scandinavian amber, Denmark
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Genus:	Fallomyrma
Species:	†F. transversa
Binomial name
†Fallomyrma transversa Dlussky & Radchenko, 2006

Distribution

This taxon was described from Rovno amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Priabonian, Late Eocene) and is also known from Bitterfeld amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Priabonian, Late Eocene) and Danish-Scandinavian amber (Priabonian, Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).

Nomenclature

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

• †transversa. †Fallomyrma transversa Dlussky & Radchenko, 2006a: 156, figs. 1-6 UKRAINE (Rovno Amber).

References

• Dlussky, G. M. and A. Radchenko. 2006. Fallomyrma gen. nov., a new myrmicine ant genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the late Eocene European amber. Annales Zoologici 56(1): 153-157.
• Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii 50(2): 111–122 (doi:10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).