Species: †Prodimorphomyrmex primigenius Wheeler, 1915

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Classification:

Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Genus: Prodimorphomyrmex
Species: primigenius

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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

†Prodimorphomyrmex primigenius Wheeler, 1915i PDF: 112, fig. 54 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). AntCat AntWiki HOL

Distribution Notes:

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

Comments:

Holotype currently in MCZC (PALE-4505), belonging to Klebs collection of the GZG, Göttingen, Germany.

References:

Wheeler W. M. 1915. The ants of the Baltic amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg, 55: 1-142.

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