Species: †Sicilomyrmex corniger (Emery, 1891)

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Classification:

Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Genus: Sicilomyrmex
Species: corniger

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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

†Gesomyrmex corniger Emery, 1891b: 155, pl. 3, figs. 33-35 (w.) SICILIAN AMBER, ITALY (Tertiary). Palearctic. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Combination in Sicelomyrmex: Wheeler, 1915i PDF: 111.

Spelling emended to †Sicilomyrmex: Brown & Carpenter, 1979 PDF: 423.

Distribution Notes:

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

Comments:

Type specimens 16624-16625, in Museo di Mineralogia Luigi Bombicci, Universita di Bologna, Italy.

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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