Drymomyrmex fuscipennis Wheeler 1915 (ant)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: W. M. Wheeler. 1915. The Ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55:1-142

Belongs to Drymomyrmex according to G. M. Dlussky and A. P. Rasnitsyn 2009

See also Spahr 1987, Theobald 1937 and Wheeler 1915

Sister taxa: Drymomyrmex claripennis, Drymomyrmex rasnitsyni

Type specimen: Konigsberg B 18862, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Germany (1 collection)

• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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