Bitterfeld Amber

Dubovikoff et al. 2020 - Taking into account Protaneuretus mirabilis and Eldermyrmex exsectus that we described from the Bitterfeld amber (Dubovikoff et al., 2019), only 15 of 65 described species of the Bitterfeld ants (23%) are unknown north of the Subparatethys (from Baltic amber) (Dlussky and Rasnitsyn, 2009; Perkovsky, 2016; Radchenko and Dlussky, 2017, 2018a, 2018b); even taking into account a new species of Zherichinius and several other undescribed species of Dolichoderinae and Myrmicinae from Bitterfeld (Perkovsky, 2016) the proportion of Bitterfeld ants unknown north of the Subparatethys is considerably lower than in the Rovno amber: 26 of 71 (37%) of such species are present among the already described ant species from the Rovno amber (Perkovsky, 2018; Radchenko and Perkovsky, 2020).