Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: D. M. Zharkov and D. A. Dubovikoff. 2025. Taxonomic names, in A new spineless species of the genus Myrmica Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from late Eocene Baltic amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 87:224-229
Belongs to Myrmica according to D. M. Zharkov and D. A. Dubovikoff 2025
Sister taxa: Myrmica aemula, 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 saxonica, Myrmica schaefersi
Type specimen: PMPSU KA-122, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (St Petersburg State University PMPSU collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Lithuania.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic amber (St Petersburg State University PMPSU collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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