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Pityomyrmex tornquisti
| †Pityomyrmex tornquisti Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Aneuretinae |
| Tribe: | Pityomyrmecini |
| Genus: | Pityomyrmex |
| Species: | †P. tornquisti |
| Binomial name | |
| †Pityomyrmex tornquisti Wheeler, W.M., 1915 | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Priabonian, Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †tornquisti. †Pityomyrmex tornquisti Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 99, fig. 48 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
Description
References
- Radchenko, A. 2023. A new extinct ant genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Baltic Amber. Annales Zoologici 73(1), 41-49 (doi:10.3161/00034541anz2023.73.1.004).
- Radchenko, A., Khomych, M. 2022. First records of aneuretine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Aneuretinae) in late Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine). Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 65 (2): 69–80 (doi:10.3897/travaux.65.e85206).
- Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 99, fig. 48 worker described)