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 andryushchenkoi, Myrmica angusticollis, Myrmica damzeni, Myrmica dictyosa, Myrmica electrina, Myrmica incompleta, Myrmica intermedia, Myrmica lobifrons, Myrmica longispinosa, Myrmica macrocephala, Myrmica molassica, Myrmica nebulosa, Myrmica nungesseri, Myrmica obsoleta, Myrmica paradoxa, Myrmica rudis, Myrmica saxonica, Myrmica schaefersi
Type specimen: PIN 964/479, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Yantarnyi village (PIN collection 964), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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