Gesomyrmex hoernesi
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| †Gesomyrmex hoernesi Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Gesomyrmecini |
| Genus: | Gesomyrmex |
| Species: | †G. hoernesi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Gesomyrmex hoernesi Mayr, 1868
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Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and is also known from Bitterfeld amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene), Danish-Scandinavian amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and Rovno amber (Priabonian, Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †hoernesi. †Gesomyrmex hoernesi Mayr, 1868c: 52, pl. 2, figs. 38-41 (w.m.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). Dlussky, Wappler & Wedmann, 2009: 8 (q.). Senior synonym of †annectens, †mayri, †theryi: Wheeler, W.M. 1929a: 11.
- †theryi. †Dimorphomyrmex theryi Emery, 1905b: 188, fig. 1 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). Junior synonym of †hoernesi: Wheeler, W.M. 1929a: 11.
- †annectens. †Gesomyrmex annectens Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 107, fig. 52 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). Junior synonym of †hoernesi: Wheeler, W.M. 1929a: 11.
- †mayri. †Dimorphomyrmex mayri Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 106, fig. 51 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). Junior synonym of †hoernesi: Wheeler, W.M. 1929a: 11.
Description
References
- Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss. 1: 1-102 (page 52, pl. 2, figs. 38-41 worker, male described)
- Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii, 50(2): 111–122 (DOI 10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).
- Radchenko, A.G., Perkovsky, E.E., Vasilenko, D.V. 2021. Formica species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae) in late Eocene Rovno amber. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 82, 237–251 (doi:10.3897/jhr.82.64599).
- Wheeler, W. M. 1929a. The identity of the ant genera Gesomyrmex Mayr and Dimorphomyrmex Ernest André. Psyche (Camb.) 36: 1-12 (page 11, Senior synonym of *theryi:)
