Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: A. Radchenko, G. Dlussky, and G. W. Elmes. 2007. The Ants of the Genus Myrmica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Baltic and Saxonian Amber (Late Eocene). Journal of Paleontology 81(6):1494-1501

Belongs to Myrmica according to A. Radchenko 2023

See also Bolton 2012 and Radchenko et al. 2007

Sister taxa: Myrmica aemula, Myrmica angusticollis, Myrmica damzeni, Myrmica dictyosa, Myrmica electrina, Myrmica eocenica, Myrmica incompleta, Myrmica intermedia, Myrmica lobifrons, Myrmica longispinosa, Myrmica macrocephala, Myrmica molassica, Myrmica nebulosa, Myrmica nungesseri, Myrmica obsoleta, Myrmica rudis, Myrmica saxonica, Myrmica schaefersi

Type specimen: GZG.BST.27.199, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber, Kutscher collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bitterfeld amber, Kutscher collection

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.