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Prionomyrmex longiceps
| †Prionomyrmex longiceps 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: | Myrmeciinae |
| Tribe: | Prionomyrmecini |
| Genus: | Prionomyrmex |
| Species: | †P. longiceps |
| Binomial name | |
| †Prionomyrmex longiceps Mayr, 1868 | |
Identification
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) (Perkovsky, 2016) and Rovno amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Priabonian, Late Eocene) (Radchenko & Perkovsky, 2020).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †longiceps. †Prionomyrmex longiceps Mayr, 1868c: 78, pl. 4, figs. 74, 75 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 27 (m.).
Description
References
- Baroni Urbani, C. 2003a. The Baltic amber species of Prionomyrmex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Mitt. Geol.-Paläontol. Inst. Univ. Hambg. 87: 141-146 (page 144, redescription)
- Baroni Urbani, C.; De Andrade, M. L. 2003a. The ant genus Proceratium in the extant and fossil record (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Monogr. (Turin) 36: 1-492.
- 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).
- Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss. 1: 1-102 (page 78, pl. 4, figs. 74, 75 worker described)
- 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).
- 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. 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).
- Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 27, male described)