Emplastus biamoensis Perfilieva and Rasnitsyn 2015 (ant)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Synonym: Emplastus dubius Dlussky et al. 2015 [replaced name]

Full reference: K. S. Perfilieva and A. P. Rasnitsyn. 2015. Emplastus biamoensis nom. n., a replacement name for ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11:405-406

Belongs to Emplastus according to K. S. Perfilieva and A. P. Rasnitsyn 2015

See also Dlussky et al. 2015

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

Type specimens:

  • Emplastus biamoensis: PIN 3429/109, an exoskeleton
  • Emplastus dubius: PIN 3429/109, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Radoboj (Grätz Collection), which is in a Sarmatian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in Croatia.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bolshaya Svetlovodnaya, Biamo (PIN collection 3429) (Eocene of Russian Federation)

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