†Species: Dolichoderus tertiarius

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Distribution:

Baltic amber; middle to Late Eocene (34-42 Ma).

Comments:

Lectotype NMW 1984/31/247 and paratypes in Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria; other specimens in Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin, Germany (collection Simon); Paleontological Institute, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Museum Ziemi, Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

Taxonomic Notes:

A key to Eocene-Oligocene amber Dolichoderus is available in Dlussky, 2008. 

References:

• Mayr G. L. 1868. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitrage zur Naturkunde Preussens, 1: 1-102.
• Dalla Torre C. G. de. 1893. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VII: Formicidae (Heterogyna). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, Lipsiae: 289 pp.
• Wheeler W. M. 1915. The ants of the Baltic amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg, 55: 1-142.
• Dlussky G. M. 2002. Ants of the genus Dolichoderus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Baltic and Rovno ambers. Paleontological Journal, 36(1): 50-63.
• Dlussky G. M. 2008. New species of ants of the genus Dolichoderus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Late Eocene ambers of Europe. Vestnik Zoologii, 42: 497-514. [in Russian]

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BMNHP17799

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MBI5857

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