Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: W. M. Wheeler. 1915. The Ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55:1-142
Belongs to Platythyrea according to C. A. Schmidt and S. O. Shattuck 2014
See also Dlussky 2009, Spahr 1987, Theobald 1937 and Wheeler 1915
Sister taxa: Platythyrea dentata, Platythyrea dlusskyi, Platythyrea parallela, Platythyrea procera, Platythyrea pumilio, Platythyrea scalpra
Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Germany (1 collection)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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