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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