Liometopum oligocenicum
Appearance
†Liometopum oligocenicum Temporal range: Baltic amber
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
Genus: | Liometopum |
Species: | L. oligocenicum
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Binomial name | |
Liometopum oligocenicum Wheeler, W.M., 1915
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Liometopum oligocenicum is an extinct species of Miocene ant in the genus Liometopum. Described by William Morton Wheeler in 1915, the fossils were found in Baltic amber.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Wheeler, W. M. 1915i [1914]. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schr. Phys.-Ökon. Ges. Königsb. 55: 1-142 (page 95, fig. 46 worker described)