Protoformica proformicoides

†Protoformica proformicoides 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:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Formicini
Genus:	Protoformica
Species:	†P. proformicoides
Binomial name
†Protoformica proformicoides (Dlussky, 1967)

Distribution

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

Nomenclature

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

• †proformicoides. †Formica (Protoformica) proformicoides Dlussky, 1967b: 85, fig. 2 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). Combination in †Protoformica: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1987: 77. See also: Dlussky, 2008a: 56.

References

• Dlussky, G. M. 1967b. Ants of the genus Formica from the Baltic amber. Paleontol. Zh. 1967(2 2: 80-89 (page 85, fig. 2 worker described)
• Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. (page 77, Combination in Protoformica)
• Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii 50(2): 111–122 (doi:10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).