Species: Hypopomyrmex bombiccii

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†Hypopomyrmex bombiccii Emery, 1891b: 149, pl. 1, figs. 10, 11 (q.) SICILIAN AMBER, ITALY (Cenozoic). Palearctic. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

See also: Brown & Carpenter, 1979 PDF: 417.

Sicilian amber, Italy; exact age unknown between late Eocene, Oligocene, and middle Miocene (14 to 34 Ma; see Ragazzi & Roghi, 2014).

Holotype 16618, in Museo di Mineralogia Luigi Bombicci, Universita di Bologna, Italy.

Emery C. 1891. Le formiche dell'ambra Siciliana nel Museo Mineralogico della Universita di Bologna. Memorie della Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, 5(1): 141-165.
Brown W. L. Jr., Carpenter F. M. 1978 [1979]. A restudy of two ants from the Sicilian amber. Psyche, 85(4): 417-423.
Ragazzi E., Roghi G., 2014. Simetite, the Sicilian amber, In: Kustatscher E., Roghi G., Bertini A., Miola A. (Eds.), Palaeobotany of Italy. Publication of the Museum of Nature South Tyrol, 9: 232-237.