Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Alternative combinations: Erebomyrma antiqua, Oligomyrmex antiqua, Pheidologeton antiquus
Full reference: G. L. Mayr. 1868. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beiträge zur Naturkunde Preussens 1:1-102
Belongs to Carebara according to A. Radchenko et al. 2019
See also Mayr 1868, Piton and Théobald 1935, Spahr 1987 and Wheeler 1915
Sister taxa: Carebara bohemica, Carebara groehni, Carebara kutscheri, Carebara nitida, Carebara rugiceps, Carebara schossnicensis, Carebara sophiae, Carebara thorali, Carebara ucrainica
Type specimen: No. 447/7733, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection)
• Eocene of Poland (1), the Russian Federation (3)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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