†Species: Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Distribution:

Baltic and Saxonian amber; middle Eocene (Lutetian) to Late Oligocene (23-42 Ma).

Comments:

Some type specimens in Geowissenschaftlicher Zentrum Georg-August Universitat Gottingen, Germany; one type specimen in Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin, Germany (collection Berendt; five specimens also mentioned from Bitterfeld (Saxonian) amber collection in GZG (Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009).

References:

• Mayr G.L. 1868. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitrage zur Naturkunde Preussens, 1: 1-102.
• Wheeler W.M. 1915. The ants of the Baltic amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg, 55: 1-142.
• Dlussky G.M. & Rasnitsyn A.P. 2009. Ants (Insecta: Vespida: Formicidae) in the Upper Eocene amber of Central and Eastern Europe. Paleontological Journal, 43(9): 1024-1042.

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