Dolichoderus cornutus

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Dolichoderus cornutus
Temporal range: Middle to Late Eocene
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Dolichoderus cornutus JV-A2 profile.jpg
Worker in Baltic amber
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Dolichoderus
Species:
D. cornutus
Binomial name
Dolichoderus cornutus
(Mayr, 1868)
Synonyms
  • Hypoclinea cornuta

Dolichoderus cornutus is an extinct species of Eocene ant in the genus Dolichoderus . Described by Mayr in 1868, the fossils were discovered in the Baltic amber, where a fossilised worker ant was only described, and it is presumed these ants existed at least 40 million years ago. [1]

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References

  1. Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss.1: 1-102 (page 61, pl. 3, fig. 52 worker described)