Baltic Amber

List of Extinct Ants found in Baltic Amber (Eocene)

Baltic amber is from the late Eocene age between 40 - 50 million years ago. The main deposits of Baltic amber are on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea. The Baltic and similar ambers are widespread on the territories of the Central and Eastern Europe and for a long time attracted attention of geologists, entomologists, and other researchers. The age and sources of amber from different regions of Europe have been a subject of discussion for many decades. Because amber easily withstands repeated redeposition and because its mineralogical characteristics are variable, an important role in settling these issues is played by organic inclusions, particularly the relatively well-studied inclusions of ants.

Agroecomyrmex

 * Agroecomyrmex duisburgi	Mayr, 1868
 * Agroecomyrmex duisburgi Mayr, 1868

Aphaenogaster

 * Aphaenogaster mersa	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Aphaenogaster oligocenica	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti	Mayr, 1868

Asymphylomyrmex

 * Asymphylomyrmex balticus	Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Bilobomyrma

 * Bilobomyrma baltica Radchenko & Dlussky, 2013

Bradoponera

 * Bradoponera electrina	De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 2003


 * Bradoponera meieri	Mayr, 1868


 * Bradoponera wunderlichi	Baroni Urbani & de Andrade, 2003

Camponotus

 * Camponotus mengei	Mayr, 1868

Carebara

 * Carebara antiqua	Mayr, 1868

Cataglyphoides

 * Cataglyphoides constrictus	Mayr, 1868
 * Cataglyphoides intermedius Dlussky, 2008

Ctenobethylus

 * Ctenobethylus goepperti	Mayr, 1868

Dolichoderus

 * Dolichoderus balticus	Mayr, 1868
 * Dolichoderus brevicornis	Dlussky, 2002
 * Dolichoderus brevipalpis Dlussky, 2008
 * Dolichoderus cornutus	Mayr, 1868
 * Dolichoderus elegans	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Dolichoderus granulinotus Dlussky, 2008
 * Dolichoderus longipennis	Mayr, 1868
 * Dolichoderus longipilosus	Dlussky, 2002
 * Dolichoderus mesosternalis	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Dolichoderus nanus	Dlussky, 2002
 * Dolichoderus passalomma	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Dolichoderus polonicus	Dlussky, 2002
 * Dolichoderus punctatus Dlussky, 2008
 * Dolichoderus sculpturatus	Mayr, 1868
 * Dolichoderus tertiarius	Mayr, 1868
 * Dolichoderus vexillarius	Wheeler, W.M., 1915

''Drymomyrmex'

 * Drymomyrmex claripennis Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Drymomyrmex fuscipennis Wheeler, W.M. 1915

Eldermyrmex

 * Eldermyrmex oblongiceps (Wheeler, W.M. 1915)

Electromyrmex

 * Electromyrmex klebsi	Wheeler, W.M., 1910
 * Electroponera dubia	Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Enneamerus

 * Enneamerus reticulatus	Mayr, 1868

Eocenomyrma

 * Eocenomyrma elegantula Dlussky & Radchenko, 2006
 * Eocenomyrma orthospina Dlussky & Radchenko, 2006
 * Eocenomyrma rugosostriata Mayr, 1868

Formica

 * Formica flori	Mayr, 1868
 * Formica gustawi	Dlussky, 2002
 * Formica horrida	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Formica lucida Giebel, 1856
 * Formica luteola	Presl, 1822
 * Formica macrognatha	Presl, 1822
 * Formica palaeopolonica Dlussky, 2008
 * Formica parvula	Presl, 1822
 * Formica phaethusa	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Formica quadrata	Holl, 1829
 * Formica strangulata	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Formica surinamensis	Berendt, 1830
 * Formica trigona	Presl, 1822
 * Formica zherikhini Dlussky, 2008

Gesomyrmex

 * Gesomyrmex hoernesi	Mayr, 1868

Glaphyromyrmex

 * Glaphyromyrmex oligocenicus	Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Gnamptogenys

 * Gnamptogenys europaea	Mayr, 1868
 * Gnamptogenys rohdendorfi Dlussky, 2009

Hypoponera

 * Hypoponera atavia	Mayr, 1868

Lasius

 * Lasius nemorivagus	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Lasius pumilus	Mayr, 1868
 * Lasius punctulatus (Mayr, 1868)
 * Lasius schiefferdeckeri	Mayr, 1868

Liometopum

 * Liometopum oligocenicum	Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Monomorium

 * Monomorium mayrianum	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Monomorium pilipes	Mayr, 1868

Myrmica

 * Myrmica eocenica Dlussky & Elmes, 2007
 * Myrmica intermedia	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Myrmica longispinosa	Mayr, 1868
 * Myrmica rudis	Mayr, 1868

Nylanderia

 * Nylanderia pygmaea Mayr, 1868

Oecophylla

 * Oecophylla brischkei	Mayr, 1868
 * Oecophylla crassinoda	Wheeler, W.M., 1922

Pachycondyla

 * Pachycondyla baltica Dlussky, 2002
 * Pachycondyla gracilicornis	Mayr, 1868
 * Pachycondyla succinea	Mayr, 1868

Parameranoplus

 * Parameranoplus primaevus	Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Paraneuretus

 * Paraneuretus longicornis	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Paraneuretus tornquisti	Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Pheidole

 * Pheidole cordata	Holl, 1829

Pityomyrmex

 * Pityomyrmex tornquisti	Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Plagiolepis

 * Plagiolepis klinsmanni	Mayr, 1868
 * Plagiolepis kuenowi	Mayr, 1868
 * Plagiolepis singularis	Mayr, 1868
 * Plagiolepis solitaria	Mayr, 1868
 * Plagiolepis squamifera	Mayr, 1868
 * Plagiolepis succini	André, 1895
 * Plagiolepis wheeleri Dlussky, 2010

Platythyrea

 * Platythyrea primaeva	Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Ponera

 * Ponera lobulifera Dlussky, 2009
 * Ponera mayri Dlussky, 2009

Prenolepis

 * Prenolepis henschei	Mayr, 1868

Prionomyrmex

 * Prionomyrmex janzeni	Baroni Urbani, 2000
 * Prionomyrmex longiceps	Mayr, 1868

Procerapachys

 * Procerapachys annosus Wheeler, W.M. 1915
 * Procerapachys favosus Wheeler, W.M. 1915
 * Procerapachys sulcatus Dlussky, 2009

Proceratium

 * Proceratium eocenicum Dlussky, 2009

Prodimorphomyrmex

 * Prodimorphomyrmex primigenius	Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Protaneuretus

 * Protaneuretus succineus	Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Protoformica

 * Protoformica proformicoides	Dlussky, 1967

Protomyrmica

 * Protomyrmica atavia Dlussky & Radchenko, 2009

Pseudolasius

 * Pseudolasius boreus	Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Stenamma

 * Stenamma berendti	Mayr, 1868

Stigmomyrmex

 * Stigmomyrmex venustus	Mayr, 1868

Stigmatomma

 * Stigmatomma electrinum (Dlussky, 2009)
 * Stigmatomma groehni (Dlussky, 2009)

Stiphromyrmex

 * Stiphromyrmex robustus	Mayr, 1868

Temnothorax

 * Temnothorax glaesarius	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Temnothorax gracilis	Mayr, 1868
 * Temnothorax hystriculus	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Temnothorax longaevus	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Temnothorax petiolata Mayr, 1868
 * Temnothorax placivus	Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Tetraponera

 * Tetraponera groehni Dlussky, 2009
 * Tetraponera klebsi	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Tetraponera lacrimarum	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Tetraponera ocellata	Mayr, 1868
 * Tetraponera simplex	Mayr, 1868

Vollenhovia

 * Vollenhovia beyrichi	Mayr, 1868
 * Vollenhovia prisca	André, 1895

Yantaromyrmex

 * Yantaromyrmex constrictus (Mayr, 1868)
 * Yantaromyrmex geinitzi	(Mayr, 1868)
 * Yantaromyrmex samlandicus (Wheeler, W.M., 1915)

Unresolved Junior Primary Homonym

 * Formica gibbosa Presl, 1822
 * 197 (no caste) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). [Unresolved junior primary homonym of gibbosa Latreille, 1798: 50, above.]

REFEREENCES

 * Dlussky, G.M. & Rasnitsyn, A.P. 2009. Ants in the Upper Eocene amber of central and eastern Europe. Paleontological Journal 43: 1024-1042.
 * Dlussky, G.M. 2008a. Murav’i triby Formicini pozdneyeotsenovykh yantarei Evropy. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 2008 (No. 5): 45-59. [English translation: 2008. Paleontological Journal 42 (5): 500-513.]
 * Radchenko, A.G., Dlussky, G. & Elmes, G.W. 2007. The ants of the genus Myrmica from Baltic and Saxonian amber. Journal of Paleontology 81: 1494-1501.
 * Dlussky, G.M. & Radchenko, A.G. 2009. Two new primitive ant genera from the late Eocene European ambers. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54: 435-441.
 * Dlussky, G. M. 1967b. Ants of the genus Formica from the Baltic amber. Paleontol. Zh. 1967(2 2: 80-89
 * Dlussky, G. M., T. Wappler and S. Wedmann. 2009. Fossil ants of the genus Gesomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Eocene of Europe and remarks on the evolution of arboreal ant communities. Zootaxa 2031: 1-20
 * Wheeler, W. M. 1915i [1914]. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schr. Phys.-Ökon. Ges. Königsb. 55: 1-142