Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: A. Radchenko. 2023. Myrmica ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in late Eocene European ambers. Annales Zoologici 73:629-648
Belongs to Myrmica according to A. Radchenko 2023
Sister taxa: Myrmica aemula, Myrmica angusticollis, Myrmica dictyosa, Myrmica electrina, Myrmica eocenica, Myrmica incompleta, Myrmica intermedia, Myrmica lobifrons, Myrmica longispinosa, Myrmica macrocephala, Myrmica molassica, Myrmica nebulosa, Myrmica nungesseri, Myrmica obsoleta, Myrmica paradoxa, Myrmica rudis, Myrmica saxonica, Myrmica schaefersi
Type specimen: SIZK JDC 9928, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology SIZK collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology SIZK collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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