Dolichoderus sculpturatus

Dolichoderus sculpturatus
Temporal range: Middle to Late Eocene

Baltic amber

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Dolichoderus
Species: D. sculpturatus
Binomial name
Dolichoderus sculpturatus
(Mayr, 1868)

Dolichoderus sculpturatus is an extinct species of ant in the genus Dolichoderus. Described by Mayr in 1868, a fossilised worker was discovered and described in the Baltic amber.[1]

References

  1. Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss. 1: 1-102 (page 62, pl. 3, figs. 53-55 worker described)
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