Crematogaster praecursor
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| †Crematogaster praecursor Temporal range: Late/Upper Miocene Sicilian amber, Italy | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Crematogaster |
| Species: | †C. praecursor |
| Binomial name | |
| †Crematogaster praecursor Emery, 1891 | |
Contents
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Sicilian amber, Italy (Late/Upper Miocene).
Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †praecursor. †Crematogaster praecursor Emery, 1891a: 152, pl. 2, figs. 19-21 (m.) SICILIAN AMBER (Oligocene).
Description
References
- Emery, C. 1891b. Le formiche dell'ambra Siciliana nel Museo Mineralogico dell'Università di Bologna. Mem. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna (5)1:141-165 (page 152, pl. 2, figs. 19-21 male described)
- Radchenko, A.G., Dlussky, G.M. 2019. First record of the ant genus Crematogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Late Eocene European ambers. Annales Zoologici 69: 417-421 (DOI 10.3161/00034541ANZ2019.69.2.008).
