Eldermyrmex oblongiceps Wheeler 1915

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Alternative combinations: Ctenobethylus oblongiceps, Iridomyrmex oblongiceps

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

Belongs to Eldermyrmex according to D. A. Dubovikoff and G. M. Dlussky 2019

See also Dlussky and Rasnitsyn 2009, Shattuck 1992, Shattuck 2011, Spahr 1987 and Wheeler 1915

Sister taxon: Eldermyrmex exsectus

Type specimen: GU B 5385 (BST 05036), an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection

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