Carebara antiqua

†Carebara antiqua 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:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Carebara
Species:	†C. antiqua
Binomial name
†Carebara antiqua (Mayr, 1868)

Photo Gallery

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  Male; A – body, lateral view; B – mesosoma, head and antennae, lateral view (Radchenko et al. 2019, Fig. 5).

Distribution

This taxon was described from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and is also known from Bitterfeld amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and Rovno amber (Priabonian, Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).

Nomenclature

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

• †antiqua. †Pheidologeton antiquus Mayr, 1868b: 93, pl. 5, figs. 95, 96 (q.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
  • Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 46 (w.m.).
  • Combination in Aeromyrma: Emery, 1891a: 577;
  • combination in Erebomyrma: Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 46;
  • combination in Aneleus: Emery, 1924d: 218 (footnote);
  • combination in Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 123;
  • combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
  • Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 722; Dalla Torre, 1893: 78; André, 1895b: 82 (in list); Handlirsch, 1907: 872; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 46; Piton & Théobald, 1935: 83; Ettershank, 1966: 123; Burnham, 1979: 110; Keilbach, 1982: 274; Bolton, 1995b: 299; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1032; Perkovsky, 2016: 115; Radchenko, Dlussky & Gröhn, 2019: 613.

References

• Emery, C. 1891b. Le formiche dell'ambra Siciliana nel Museo Mineralogico dell'Università di Bologna. Mem. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna (5)1:141-165 (page 577, Combination in Aeromyrma)
• Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 14: 73-171 (page 123, Combination in Oligomyrmex)
• Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymentoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26(1): 191-238 (page 235, Combination in Carebara)
• Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss. 1: 1-102 (page 93, pl. 5, figs. 95, 96 queen described)
• 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., Dlussky, G.M., Gröhn, C. 2019. New extinct species of the ant genus Carebara (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the late Eocene European ambers. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 69: 609-616 (doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2019.69.3.010).
• Wheeler, W. M. 1915i [1914]. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schr. Phys.-Ökon. Ges. Königsb. 55: 1-142 (page 46, worker, male described; page 46, Combination in Erebomyrma)