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.

A

 * Agroecomyrmex duisburgi	Mayr, 1868


 * Amblyopone electrina Dlussky, 2009


 * Amblyopone groehni Dlussky, 2009


 * Agroecomyrmex duisburgi Mayr, 1868


 * Anonychomyrma constricta	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


 * Ctenobethylus oblongiceps Wheeler, W.M. 1915

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

 * 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 rugostriata Dlussky & Radchenko, 2006

F

 * Formica flori	Mayr, 1868


 * Formica gustawi	Dlussky, 2002


 * Formica horrida	Wheeler, W.M., 1915


 * 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

I

 * Iridomyrmex geinitzi	Mayr, 1868

L

 * Lasius nemorivagus	Wheeler, W.M., 1915


 * Lasius pumilus	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 longispinosa	Mayr, 1868

N

 * Nothomyrmica intermedia	Wheeler, W.M., 1915


 * Nothomyrmica petiolata	Mayr, 1868


 * Nothomyrmica rudis	Mayr, 1868


 * Nothomyrmica rugosostriata	Mayr, 1868


 * 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 pygmaeus	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


 * Prenolepis pygmaea	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

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