Monomorium pilipes

†Monomorium pilipes Temporal range: Priabonian, 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. pilipes
Binomial name
†Monomorium pilipes Mayr, 1868

Distribution

This taxon was described from Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Priabonian, Late Eocene) and is also known from Bitterfeld amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Priabonian, Late Eocene), Danish-Scandinavian amber (Priabonian, 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.

• †pilipes. †Monomorium pilipes Mayr, 1868b: 91, pl. 5, figs. 93, 94 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
  • Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 717; Dalla Torre, 1893: 69; André, 1895b: 82 (in list); Handlirsch, 1907: 872; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 45; Ettershank, 1966: 91; Burnham, 1979: 110; Keilbach, 1982: 274; Bolton, 1995b: 266; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1032.

References

• Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beiträge zur Naturkunde Preussens. Königlichen Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 1: 1-102. [(31.xii).1868.] (page 91, pl. 5, figs. 93, 94 worker described)
• Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii 50(2): 111–122 (doi:10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).