Temnothorax petiolatus
†Temnothorax petiolatus Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
Genus: | Temnothorax |
Species: | †T. petiolatus |
Binomial name | |
†Temnothorax petiolatus (Mayr, 1868) |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †petiolatus. †Macromischa petiolata Mayr, 1868c: 85, pl. 4, figs. 83, 84 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
- Combination in †Nothomyrmica: Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 62.
- Combination in Temnothorax: Dlussky & Radchenko, 2006b: 561.
- Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 716; Dalla Torre, 1893: 120; André, 1895b: 82 (in list); Handlirsch, 1907: 876; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 62; Burnham, 1979: 110; Keilbach, 1982: 275; Bolton, 1995b: 292; Dlussky & Radchenko, 2006b: 561; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1032; Perkovsky, 2016: 117.