Crematogaster praecursor

†Crematogaster praecursor Temporal range: Late/Upper Miocene PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N Sicilian amber, Italy
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

Distribution

This taxon was described from Sicilian amber, Italy (Late/Upper Miocene).

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's New General Catalogue, a catalogue of the world's ants.

• †praecursor. †Crematogaster praecursor Emery, 1891a: 152, pl. 2, figs. 19-21 (m.) SICILIAN AMBER (Oligocene).

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).