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Liometopum scudderi
| †Liometopum scudderi Temporal range: Late Eocene Florissant, Colorado, United States | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Genus: | Liometopum |
| Species: | †L. scudderi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Liometopum scudderi Carpenter, 1930 | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from the Florissant, Colorado, United States (Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †scudderi. †Liometopum scudderi Carpenter, 1930: 47, pl. 4, fig. 4; pl. 9, fig. 4 (w.q.) U.S.A. (Oligocene).
Description
References
- Carpenter, F. M. 1930. The fossil ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 70: 1-66. (page 47, pl. 4, fig. 4; pl. 9, fig. 4 worker, queen described)
- LaPolla, J.S. 2023. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the early Oligocene Canyon Ferry Reservoir deposit. Palaeoentomology 6(4), 385-397 (doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.4.10).