Solenopsis atavina
†Solenopsis atavina Temporal range: Sarmatian, Upper Miocene Khronya Cape, Kerch, Crimea, Russian Federation | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Genus: | Solenopsis |
Species: | †S. atavina |
Binomial name | |
†Solenopsis atavina Perfilieva, Dubovikoff & Dlussky, 2017 |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Khronya Cape, Kerch, Crimea, Russian Federation (Sarmatian, Upper Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †atavina. †Solenopsis atavinus Perfilieva, Dubovikoff & Dlussky, 2017: 396, fig. 4, pl. 7, fig. 3 (q.) RUSSIA (Crimea, Miocene).
Type Material
Holotype. Incompletely preserved imprint of a female; from Khronya Cape (south-east margin of Yurkino Village), Crimea; the deposits are dated Late Miocene (Sarmatian; Nevesskaya et al., 1986). 12.7 - 11.6mya, Serravallian, Middle OR Upper Miocene (Arthropod Laboratory of the A.A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, no. 4703/23a).