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Issue: Vol. 4 No. 6: December 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-12-14
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.4.6.4
Page range: 544–549
Abstract views: 290
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New species of the fossil ant genus Drymomyrmex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae) from the late Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine)

I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, 01030, Ukraine
Hymenoptera Formicidae Formicinae Drymomyrmex rasnitsyni sp. nov. Plagiolepidini worker caste morphology taxonomy palaeontology first records

Abstract

A new species of the fossil ant genus Drymomyrmex Wheeler, 1915, D. rasnitsyni sp. nov., is described from the late Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine). This is the first find of a worker of this genus and the first record of Drymomyrmex in the Rovno amber. Based on the analysis of the morphological features of gynes and worker it is proposed to attribute Drymomyrmex to the tribe Plagiolepidini Forel, 1886.

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