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Hypopomyrmex bombiccii
| †Hypopomyrmex bombiccii Temporal range: Late/Upper Miocene Sicilian amber, Italy | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Hypopomyrmex |
| Species: | †H. bombiccii |
| Binomial name | |
| †Hypopomyrmex bombiccii Emery, 1891 | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Sicilian amber, Italy (Late/Upper Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †bombiccii. †Hypopomyrmex bombiccii Emery, 1891a: 149, pl. 1, figs. 10, 11 (q.) SICILIAN AMBER (Oligocene). See also: Brown & Carpenter, 1979: 417.
Description
References
- Brown, W. L., Jr.; Carpenter, F. M. 1979 [1978]. A restudy of two ants from the Sicilian amber. Psyche (Camb.) 85: 417-423 (page 417, see also)
- Emery, C. 1891b. Le formiche dell'ambra Siciliana nel Museo Mineralogico dell'Università di Bologna. Mem. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna (5)1:141-165 (page 149, pl. 1, figs. 10, 11 queen described)