Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Alternative combination: Dolichoderus gurnetensis

Full reference: H. S.t. J. Donisthorpe. 1920. British Oligocene Ants. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9 6:81-94

Belongs to Emplastus according to G. M. Dlussky and K. S. Perfilieva 2014

See also Bolton 2012 and Donisthorpe 1920

Sister taxa: Emplastus amguensis, Emplastus antiquus, Emplastus biamoensis, Emplastus britannicus, Emplastus dubius, Emplastus elongatus, Emplastus haueri, Emplastus hypolithus, Emplastus kozlovi, Emplastus macrops, Emplastus miocenicus, Emplastus obliquus, Emplastus ocellus, Emplastus similis

Type specimen: BMNH I.9755, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll)

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