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Nylanderia pygmaea

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Prenolepis pygmaea was named by Mayr (1868). Its type specimen is B 5080, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber.

It was recombined as Paratrechina pygmaea by Dlussky and Rasnitsyn (2009); it was recombined as Nylanderia pygmaea by LaPolla and Dlussky (2010).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1868Prenolepis pygmaea Mayr p. 36 fig. 18
1915Prenolepis pygmaea Wheeler p. 120
1987Prenolepis pygmaea Spahr p. 60
2009Paratrechina pygmaea Dlussky and Rasnitsyn p. 1036
2010Nylanderia pygmaea LaPolla and Dlussky p. 260 fig. 1,2

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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
—Formicomorpha
subfamilyFormicinae
tribeLasiini
genusNylanderia()
speciespygmaea()

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.

†Nylanderia pygmaea 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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (16 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Nylanderia pygmaea (110735 122591 123766 124003) Prenolepis pygmaea (123927 124073 124205 138661)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Ukraine Nylanderia pygmaea (122996 122997)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Germany (Halle) Nylanderia pygmaea (129227 129228)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Poland Nylanderia pygmaea (120813) Prenolepis pygmaea (109625 120811)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Denmark Nylanderia pygmaea (123762)