Aphaenogaster khomychi Radchenko 2025 (ant)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: A. Radchenko. 2025. Ants of the genus Aphaenogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Late Eocene European ambers. Annales Zoologici 75:437-454

Belongs to Aphaenogaster according to A. Radchenko 2025

Sister taxa: Aphaenogaster amphioceanica, Aphaenogaster antiqua, Aphaenogaster archaica, Aphaenogaster dlusskyana, Aphaenogaster donisthorpei, Aphaenogaster enspelensis, Aphaenogaster groehni, Aphaenogaster mayri, Aphaenogaster mersa, Aphaenogaster oligocenica, Aphaenogaster praerelicta, Aphaenogaster ribbeckei, Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti, Aphaenogaster wennebergi

Type specimen: SIZK KH-F-661, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Rovno amber (Khomych SIZK collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Ukraine.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Rovno amber (Khomych SIZK collection)

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