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Liometopum stygium
| †Liometopum stygium Temporal range: Messinian, Late Miocene Oeningen, Switzerland | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Genus: | Liometopum |
| Species: | †L. stygium |
| Binomial name | |
| †Liometopum stygium (Heer, 1867) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Oeningen, Switzerland (Messinian, Late Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †stygium. †Poneropsis stygia Heer, 1867: 27, pl. 1, fig. 20 (q.?) SWITZERLAND (Miocene).
- Incertae sedis in Formicidae: Taylor, 1964: 138;
- Combination in Liometopum: Dlussky & Putyatina, 2014: 277 [by implication because Liometopum senior synonym of †Poneropsis: Dlussky & Putyatina, 2014: 245].
- Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 53; Handlirsch, 1907: 881; Bolton, 1995b: 363.
Description
References
- Dlussky, G.M. & Putyatina, T.S. 2014. Early Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Radoboj, Croatia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 272, 237-285.
- Heer, O. 1867. Fossile Hymenopteren aus Oeningen und Radoboj. Neue Denkschr. Allg. Schweiz. Ges. Gesammten Naturwiss. 22(4 4: 1-42 (page 27, pl. 1, fig. 20 queen? described)
- Taylor, R. W. 1964. Taxonomy and parataxonomy of some fossil ants (Hymenoptera-Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 71: 134-141 (page 138, Formicidae incertae generis)