Liometopum oligocenicum

Liometopum oligocenicum
Temporal range: Middle to Late Eocene

Baltic amber

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Liometopum
Species: L. oligocenicum
Binomial name
Liometopum oligocenicum
Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Liometopum oligocenicum is an extinct species of Miocene ant in the genus Liometopum. Described by William Morton Wheeler in 9115, the fossils were found in Baltic amber.[1]

References

  1. 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)
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