Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: A. G. Radchenko and E. E. Perkovsky. 2021. Taxonomic names, in Formica species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae) in late Eocene Rovno amber. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 82:237-251
Belongs to Formica according to A. G. Radchenko and E. E. Perkovsky 2021
Sister taxa: Formica alsatica, Formica annosa, Formica arcana, Formica auxillacensis, Formica bauckhorni, Formica biamoensis, Formica buphthalma, Formica cantalica, Formica ceps, Formica cockerelli, Formica demersa, Formica eoptera, Formica flavifemoralis, Formica flori, Formica fusca, Formica globiventris, Formica grandis, Formica gravida, Formica gustawi, Formica heteroptera, Formica horrida, Formica immersa, Formica kutscheri, Formica latinodosa, Formica lavateri, Formica linquensis, Formica longicollis, Formica macrocephala, Formica macrophthalma, Formica maculipennis, Formica martynovi, Formica neorufibarbis, Formica obscura, Formica orbata, Formica ovala, Formica palaeopolonica, Formica paleosibirica, Formica parexsecta, Formica phaethusa, Formica pitoni, Formica primitiva, Formica primordialis, Formica procera, Formica pulchella, Formica radchenkoi, Formica robusta, Formica sepulta, Formica serresi, Formica seuberti, Formica strangulata, Formica surinamensis, Formica tripartita, Formica ungeri, Formica zherikhini
Type specimen: SIZK GU-25, an exoskeleton (body). Its type locality is Rovno Amber, Gulyanka locality (SIZC Gu collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Ukraine.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Ukraine (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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