Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: A. G. Radchenko and E. E. Perkovsky. 2016. The ant Aphaenogaster dlusskyana sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Sakhalin amber - the earliest described species of an extant genus of Myrmicinae. Paleontological Journal 50:936-946
Belongs to Aphaenogaster according to A. G. Radchenko and E. E. Perkovsky 2016
Sister taxa: Aphaenogaster amphioceanica, Aphaenogaster antiqua, Aphaenogaster archaica, Aphaenogaster donisthorpei, Aphaenogaster enspelensis, Aphaenogaster mayri, Aphaenogaster mersa, Aphaenogaster oligocenica, Aphaenogaster praerelicta, Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti
Type specimen: PIN 3387/172, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Sakhalin Amber (PIN collection 3387), which is in a Lutetian terrestrial amber/coal in the Naibuchi Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Sakhalin Amber (PIN collection 3387)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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