Liometopum oligocenicum 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 Liometopum according to U. Spahr 1987

See also Wheeler 1915

Sister taxa: Liometopum bogdassarovi, Liometopum eremicum, Liometopum greenwalti, Liometopum imhoffii, Liometopum incognitum, Liometopum lubricum, Liometopum miocenicum, Liometopum palaeopterum, Liometopum potamophilum, Liometopum scudderi, Poneropsis brunascens, Poneropsis globosa, Poneropsis longaeva, Poneropsis escheri, Poneropsis fuliginosa, Poneropsis imhoffii, Poneropsis veneraria, Poneropsis ventrosa, Poneropsis rhenana, Poneropsis schmidtii, Poneropsis crassinervis, Poneropsis stygia

Type specimen: Klebs K 775, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Klebs collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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