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Species: †Yantaromyrmex geinitzi   (Mayr, 1868) 


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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

†Hypoclinea geinitzi Mayr, 1868c PDF: 58, pl. 3, figs. 47-49 (w.q.m.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Combination in Bothriomyrmex: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 170; in Iridomyrmex: Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 86; provisionally retained in Iridomyrmex: Shattuck, 1992a: 15; confirmed in Iridomyrmex: Dlussky, 1997: 58; combination in Anonychomyrma: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 169; in †Yantaromyrmex: Dlussky & Dubovikoff, 2013 PDF: 309.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)
Palearctic Region: Eastern Europe, Europe, Kaliningrad, Russia

Distribution Notes:

Baltic, Rovno, and Saxonian amber; middle Eocene to Late Oligocene (23-42 Ma).

Comments:

Holotype presumably lost, material available in Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin (collection Simon); in Geowissenschaftlicher Zentrum Georg-August Universitat Gottingen, Germany; in Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine; in British Museum of Natural History, London; in Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; in Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark; in Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia.

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