Stenamma berendti

†Stenamma berendti 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:	Stenammini
Genus:	Stenamma
Species:	†S. berendti
Binomial name
†Stenamma berendti (Mayr, 1868)

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.

• †berendti. †Aphaenogaster berendti Mayr, 1868b: 82, pl. 4, fig. 78, 79 (m.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
  • [Misspelled as berenthi by Kutter, 1971: 261 (in text).]
  • Combination in Stenamma: Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 53;
  • incertae sedis in Stenamma: DuBois, 1998b: 313.
  • Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 687; Dalla Torre, 1893: 100; André, 1895b: 82 (in list); Handlirsch, 1907: 874; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 53; Kutter, 1971: 261; Burnham, 1979: 110; Keilbach, 1982: 275; DuBois, 1998b: 313, Bolton, 1995b: 393; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1032; Perkovsky, 2016: 116.

References

• DuBois, M. B. 1998a. A revision of the ant genus Stenamma in the Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Sociobiology 29: 193-403 (page 313, Incertae sedis in Stenamma)

• Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beiträge zur Naturkunde Preussens. Königlichen Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 1: 1-102. [(31.xii).1868.] (page 82, pl. 4, fi. 78, 79 male described)

• Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 53, Combination in Stenamma)