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Leucotaphus donisthorpei
| †Leucotaphus donisthorpei Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Genus: | Leucotaphus |
| Species: | †L. donisthorpei |
| Binomial name | |
| †Leucotaphus donisthorpei Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014
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This species may belong to Lasius rather than Leucotaphus (Antropov et al., 2014; Perfilieva, 2022).
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK (Priabonian, Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †donisthorpei. †Leucotaphus donisthorpei Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 88, pl 20, figs. 4-5, text-figs. 75A, B (m.) GREAT BRITAIN (Oligocene).
Description
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.
- 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).