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.

A

 * Agroecomyrmex duisburgi	Mayr, 1868
 * Amblyopone electrina Dlussky, 2009
 * Amblyopone groehni Dlussky, 2009
 * Agroecomyrmex duisburgi Mayr, 1868
 * Anonychomyrma constricta	Mayr, 1868
 * Anonychomyrma geinitzi	Mayr, 1868
 * Anonychomyrma samlandica	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Aphaenogaster mersa	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Aphaenogaster oligocenica	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti	Mayr, 1868
 * Asymphylomyrmex balticus	Wheeler, W.M., 1915

B

 * Bradoponera electrina	De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 2003
 * Bradoponera meieri	Mayr, 1868
 * Bradoponera wunderlichi	Baroni Urbani & de Andrade, 2003

C

 * Camponotus mengei	Mayr, 1868
 * Carebara antiqua	Mayr, 1868
 * Cataglyphoides constrictus	Mayr, 1868
 * Cataglyphoides intermedius Dlussky, 2008
 * Ctenobethylus goepperti	Mayr, 1868

D

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

E

 * Eldermyrmex oblongiceps (Wheeler, W.M. 1915)
 * Electromyrmex klebsi	Wheeler, W.M., 1910
 * Electroponera dubia	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Enneamerus reticulatus	Mayr, 1868
 * Eocenomyrma elegantula Dlussky & Radchenko, 2006
 * Eocenomyrma orthospina Dlussky & Radchenko, 2006
 * Eocenomyrma rugosostriata Mayr, 1868

F

 * 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

G

 * Gesomyrmex hoernesi	Mayr, 1868
 * Glaphyromyrmex oligocenicus	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Gnamptogenys europaea	Mayr, 1868
 * Gnamptogenys rohdendorfi Dlussky, 2009

H

 * Hypoponera atavia	Mayr, 1868

L

 * Lasius nemorivagus	Wheeler, W.M., 1915


 * Lasius pumilus	Mayr, 1868


 * Lasius punctulatus (Mayr, 1868)


 * Lasius schiefferdeckeri	Mayr, 1868


 * Liometopum oligocenicum	Wheeler, W.M., 1915

M

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

N

 * Nylanderia pygmaea Mayr, 1868

O

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

P

 * Pachycondyla baltica Dlussky, 2002
 * Pachycondyla gracilicornis	Mayr, 1868
 * Pachycondyla succinea	Mayr, 1868
 * Parameranoplus primaevus	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Paraneuretus longicornis	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Paraneuretus tornquisti	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Pheidole cordata	Holl, 1829
 * Pityomyrmex tornquisti	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * 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 primaeva	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Ponera lobulifera Dlussky, 2009
 * Ponera mayri Dlussky, 2009
 * Prenolepis henschei	Mayr, 1868
 * Prionomyrmex janzeni	Baroni Urbani, 2000
 * Prionomyrmex longiceps	Mayr, 1868
 * Procerapachys annosus Wheeler, W.M. 1915
 * Procerapachys favosus Wheeler, W.M. 1915
 * Procerapachys sulcatus Dlussky, 2009
 * Proceratium eocenicum Dlussky, 2009
 * Prodimorphomyrmex primigenius	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Protaneuretus succineus	Wheeler, W.M., 1915
 * Protoformica proformicoides	Dlussky, 1967
 * Protomyrmica atavia Dlussky & Radchenko, 2009
 * Pseudolasius boreus	Wheeler, W.M., 1915

S

 * Stenamma berendti	Mayr, 1868
 * Stigmomyrmex venustus	Mayr, 1868
 * Stiphromyrmex robustus	Mayr, 1868

T

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

V

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

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