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Species: †Dolichoderus mesosternalis   Wheeler, 1915 


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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

†Dolichoderus (Hypoclinea) mesosternalis Wheeler, 1915i PDF: 81, fig. 36 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

See also: Dlussky, 2002A PDF: 65.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)
Palearctic Region: Europe, Klaipėda, Lithuania, Northern Europe

Distribution Notes:

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

Comments:

Type material presumably lost; one specimen MZ 4409 in Museum Ziemi, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

Taxonomic Notes:

A key to species of Dolichoderus in Eocene-Oligocene European ambers is provided (in Russian) by Dlussky (2008).

References:

  • 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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