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 Gesomyrmex according to G. M. Dlussky et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Gesomyrmex bremii, Gesomyrmex breviceps, Gesomyrmex flavescens, Gesomyrmex gallicus, Gesomyrmex germanicus, Gesomyrmex hoernesi, Gesomyrmex magnus, Gesomyrmex pulcher
Type specimen: PIN 3429/1162, 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)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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