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Carebara antiqua

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Pheidologeton antiquus was named by Mayr (1868). Its type specimen is No. 447/7733, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Erebomyrma antiqua by Wheeler (1915), Piton and Théobald (1935); it was recombined as Oligomyrmex antiqua by Spahr (1987); it was recombined as Carebara antiqua by Radchenko et al. (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1868Pheidologeton antiquus Mayr p. 93 fig. 95,96
1915Erebomyrma antiqua Wheeler p. 48 figs. 16a, b, c, d
1935Erebomyrma antiqua Piton and Théobald p. 90 figs. Pl 5, figs 12,12a
1987Oligomyrmex antiqua Spahr p. 56
2019Carebara antiqua Radchenko et al. p. 614 figs. 4C, 5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
Athalassocarida
LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
Cercofilata
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
Antennoclypeata
Euformicia
Doryloformicia
Formicia
Formicomyrmida
Myrmicomorpha
subfamilyMyrmicinae
tribeCrematogastriniForel 1893
genusCarebara
speciesantiqua()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Carebara antiqua Mayr 1868
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Gelasian or 37.71000 to 1.80000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Carebara antiqua (110735) Erebomyrma antiqua (124073) Pheidologeton antiquus (type locality: 123927)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Poland Pheidologeton antiquus (120811)
Gelasian2.58 - 1.8France Erebomyrma antiqua (138769)