Dolichoderus longipennis

Dolichoderus longipennis
Temporal range: Middle to Late Eocene

Baltic amber

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Dolichoderus
Species: D. longipennis
Binomial name
Dolichoderus longipennis
(Mayr, 1868)

Dolichoderus longipennis is an extinct species of Eocene ant in the genus Dolichoderus. Described by Mayr in 1868, the fossils were discovered in the Baltic Amber.[1]

References

  1. Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beiträge zur Naturkunde Preussens. Königlichen Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 1: 1-102. [(31.xii).1868.] PDF (page 67, pl. 4, fig. 65 male described) PDF
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