Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Alternative combinations: Anonychomyrma samlandica, Iridomyrmex samlandicus
Full reference: W. M. Wheeler. 1915. The Ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55:1-142
Belongs to Yantaromyrmex according to G. M. Dlussky and D. A. Dubovikoff 2013
See also Heterick and Shattuck 2011, Shattuck 1992, Spahr 1987 and Wheeler 1915
Sister taxa: Yantaromyrmex constrictus, Yantaromyrmex geinitzi, Yantaromyrmex intermedius, Yantaromyrmex mayrianum
Type specimen: B 5390, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Distribution:
• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), Germany (2), the Russian Federation (5), Ukraine (1)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
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