Carebara andrushchenkoi Zharkov and Dubovikoff 2025 (ant)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: D. M. Zharkov and D. A. Dubovikoff. 2025. Taxonomic names, in First record of a soldier of the genus Carebara Westwood, 1840 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from Late Eocene Baltic amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 90:319-325

Belongs to Carebara according to D. M. Zharkov and D. A. Dubovikoff 2025

Sister taxa: Carebara antiqua, Carebara bohemica, Carebara groehni, Carebara kutscheri, Carebara nitida, Carebara rugiceps, Carebara schossnicensis, Carebara sophiae, Carebara thorali, Carebara ucrainica

Type specimen: SPSU K-234a, 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)

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