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Species: †Leptomyrmula maravignae   (Emery, 1891) 


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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

†Leptomyrmex maravignae Emery, 1891b: 152, pl. 2, fig. 22 (m.) SICILIAN AMBER, ITALY (Tertiary). Palearctic. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Combination in †Leptomyrmula: Emery, 1913a PDF: 16 (footnote). See also Ward, Brady, Fisher & Schultz, 2010 PDF: 362, incertae sedis within Dolichoderinae; Boudinot, Probst, Brandão, Feitosa & Ward, 2016 10.1111/syen.12181 PDF: 658 and supplementary material.

Distribution Notes:

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

Identification:

Emery, 1891a: 152, pl. 2, fig. 22 (m.), in Leptomyrmex.

Comments:

Holotype (and unique specimen) 16618 supposedly in Museo di Mineralogia Luigi Bombicci, Universita di Bologna, Italy, but may be lost.

References:

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.



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