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 andryushchenkoi, Myrmica angusticollis, Myrmica damzeni, 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 schaefersi
Type specimen: MfN 7/216, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber (MfN collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bitterfeld amber (MfN collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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