Zherichinius

†Zherichinius; Temporal range: Thanetian, Paleocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Sakhalin amber, Ukraine
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Tribe:	Zherichiniini
Genus:	†Zherichinius; Dlussky, 1988
Type species
	Zherichinius horribilis;
Diversity
	2 fossil species; (Species Checklist)

Identification

This taxon is known from Sakhalin amber, Ukraine (Thanetian, Paleocene).

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

†ZHERICHINIUS [Dolichoderinae: †Zherichiniini]
- †Zherichinius Dlussky, 1988: 57. Type-species: †Zherichinius horribilis, by original designation.

Taxonomic history

†Zherichinius in Dolichoderinae, †Zherichiniini: Dlussky, 1988: 57; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77; in Dolichoderinae: Shattuck, 1994: 170; Bolton, 1994: 26; Bolton, 2003: 92; incertae sedis in Dolichoderinae: Ward, et al. 2010: 362.
†Zherichinius as stem-taxon to Dolichoderinae: Borysenko, 2017: 19.
†Zherichinius catalogues: Shattuck, 1994: 170; Bolton, 1995b: 427.

Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 26, Zherichinius in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini)
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 427, Zherichinius in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini)
Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 92, Zherichinius in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini)
Borysenko, L.H. 2017. Description of a new genus of primitive ants from Canadian amber, with the study of relationships between stem- and crown-group ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insecta Mundi 570: 1–57.
Dlussky, G. M. 1988a. Ants of Sakhalin amber (Paleocene?) Paleontol. Zh. 1988(1 1: 50-61 (page 57, Zherichinius as genus; Zherichinius in Dolichoderinae, Zherichiniini)
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, Zherichinius in Dolichoderinae, Zherichiniini)
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol. 112:i-xix, 1-241. (page 170, Zherichinius in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini)