Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: H. S.t. J. Donisthorpe. 1920. British Oligocene Ants. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9 6:81-94
Parent taxon: Dolichoderinae according to K. S. Perfilieva 2022
See also Bolton 2003, Bolton 2012, Carpenter 1992, Dlussky and Perfilieva 2014, Dlussky et al. 2015 and Donisthorpe 1920
Sister taxa: Alloiomma, Asymphylomyrmex, Bothriomyrmecini, Dlusskyus, Dolichoderini, Dolichoderus obliteratus, Elaeomyrmex, Elaphrodites, Eldermyrmex, Eotapinoma, Eurymyrmex, Kotshkorkia, Ktunaxia, Leptomyrmecini, Leptomyrmula, Liometopum, Miomyrmecini, Petraeomyrmex, Proiridomyrmex, Protazteca, Tapinomini, Usomyrma, Zherichiniini
Subtaxa: Emplastus amguensis Emplastus antiquus Emplastus biamoensis Emplastus britannicus Emplastus dubius Emplastus elongatus Emplastus gurnetensis Emplastus haueri Emplastus hypolithus Emplastus kozlovi Emplastus macrops Emplastus miocenicus Emplastus obliquus Emplastus ocellus Emplastus similis
Type: Emplastus emeryi
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of Croatia (3 collections)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (2)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (5)
Total: 13 collections including 26 occurrences
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