Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Alternative combinations: Leptothorax hystriculus, Temnothorax hystriculus
Full reference: W. M. Wheeler. 1915. The Ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55:1-142
Belongs to Eotemnothorax according to A. Radchenko 2024
See also Bolton 2012, Spahr 1987 and Wheeler 1915
Sister taxa: Eotemnothorax armatum, Eotemnothorax balticus, Eotemnothorax foveocephalus, Eotemnothorax glaesarius, Eotemnothorax gracilis, Eotemnothorax groehni, Eotemnothorax khomychi, Eotemnothorax longaevus, Eotemnothorax odontos, Eotemnothorax pedunculatus, Eotemnothorax perkovskii, Eotemnothorax petiolatus, Eotemnothorax placivus, Eotemnothorax punctatus, Eotemnothorax rav, Eotemnothorax rectispinus, Eotemnothorax rhytidus
Type specimen: Konigsberg XB 1270, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection
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