Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: G. M. Dlussky, A. P. Rasnitsyn, and K. S. Perfilieva. 2015. The ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya (late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian far east). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11:131-152

Belongs to Emplastus according to G. M. Dlussky et al. 2015

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

Type specimen: PIN 3429/1187, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bolshaya Svetlovodnaya, Biamo, layer 5 (PIN collection 3429), which is in a Priabonian lacustrine diatomite in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bolshaya Svetlovodnaya, Biamo, layer 5 (PIN collection 3429)

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