Monomorium mayrianum

†Monomorium mayrianum Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Solenopsidini
Genus:	Monomorium
Species:	†M. mayrianum
Binomial name
†Monomorium mayrianum Wheeler, W.M., 1915
Synonyms
Lampromyrmex gracillimus Mayr, 1868

Distribution

This taxon was described from Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and is also known from Bitterfeld amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and Rovno amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Priabonian, Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• †gracillimum. †Lampromyrmex gracillimus Mayr, 1868b: 95, pl. 5, figs. 97, 98 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
  • Combination in Monomorium: Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 45.
  • [Junior secondary homonym of Myrmica gracillima Smith, F. 1861a: 34.]
  • [Note: combination of †gracillimum in Lophomyrmex by Dlussky, 1997: 57, is in error for †Lampromyrmex.]
  • Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 713; Dalla Torre, 1893: 78; André, 1895b: 82 (in list); Handlirsch, 1907: 873.
  • Replacement name: †Monomorium mayrianum Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 45.
• †mayrianum. †Monomorium mayrianum Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 45.
  • Replacement name for †Lampromyrmex gracillimus Mayr, 1868b: 95. [Junior secondary homonym of Myrmica gracillima Smith, F. 1861a: 34.]
  • Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 90; Burnham, 1979: 110; Keilbach, 1982: 274; Bolton, 1995b: 264; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1032; Perkovsky, 2016: 116.

References

• Lampromyrmex gracillimus May*Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss. 1: 1-102 (page 95, [Junior secondary homonym of Myrmica gracillima Smith, F. 1861a: 34.])
• 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).
• Smith, F. 1861a. Descriptions of some new species of ants from the Holy Land, with a synonymic list of others previously described. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society. Zoology 6:31-35. (page 34, primary homonym)
• Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 45, Replacement name for r, 1868c)