Prionomyrmex gusakovi

†Prionomyrmex gusakovi 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:	Myrmeciinae
Tribe:	Prionomyrmecini
Genus:	Prionomyrmex
Species:	†P. gusakovi
Binomial name
†Prionomyrmex gusakovi Radchenko & Perkovsky, 2020

Distribution

This taxon was described from Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene).

Nomenclature

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

• †gusakovi. †Prionomyrmex gusakovi Radchenko & Perkovsky, 2020: 619, pl. 8, figs. 1, 2, pl. 9, figs. 1-4 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).

Type Material

• Holotype. PIN No. 964/1319, worker; labeled by Gusakov: “2011 Collection of Viktor Gusakov CVGM № 33AFMP2011”; AntWeb CASENT0917648; Yantarnyi, Kaliningrad Region, Russia, Baltic amber, Late Eocene.

References

• Jouault, C., Nel, A. 2021. The oldest Cenozoic ant fossil: †Tyrannomecia gen. nov. (Formicidae: Myrmeciinae) from the Palaeocene Menat Formation (France). Historical Biology, 1–8 (doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.2010192).
• Mera-Rodríguez, D., Jourdan, H., Ward, P.S., Shattuck, S., Cover, S.P., Wilson, E.O., Rabeling, C. 2023. Biogeography and evolution of social parasitism in Australian Myrmecia bulldog ants revealed by phylogenomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 186, 107825 (doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107825).
• Radchenko, A.G., Perkovsky, E.E. 2020. New finds of the fossil ant genus Prionomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmeciinae) in Late Eocene European amber. Paleontological Journal 54, 617–626 (doi:10.1134/s0031030120060088).