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Species: †Dolichoderus cornutus   (Mayr, 1868) 


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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

†Hypoclinea cornuta Mayr, 1868c PDF: 61, pl. 3, fig. 52 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Combination in Dolichoderus: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 158; in Dolichoderus (Diceratoclinea): Wheeler, 1935c PDF: 69.
See also: Dlussky, 2002A PDF: 66.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)
Palearctic Region: Eastern Europe, Europe, Kaliningrad, Russia

Distribution Notes:

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

Comments:

Lectotype NMW 1984/31/243, in Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria; other specimens in Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin, Germany (collection Simon, MBI5859); in Paleontological Institute, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (PIN 364/9, 364/109; in Museum Ziemi, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland (MZ 7276).

Taxonomic Notes:

A key to Eocene-Oligocene amber Dolichoderus [in Russian] 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 Königsberg, 55: 1-142.
  • Wheeler W. M. 1935. Myrmecological notes. Psyche, 42: 68-72.
  • 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.

Specimen Habitat Summary

Type specimens: lectotype: nhmw1984-31-243



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