†Plesiomyrmex tubulatus Dlussky and Radchenko 2009 (ant)
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Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: G. M. Dlussky and A. G. Radchenko. 2009. Two new primitive ant genera from the late Eocene European ambers. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54:435-441
Belongs to Plesiomyrmex according to B. Bolton 2012
See also Dlussky and Radchenko 2009
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: GZG.BST 27.193, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber (Kutscher Gottingen collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bitterfeld amber (Kutscher Gottingen collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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