Dolichoderus longipennis

Dolichoderus longipennis is an extinct species of Eocene ant in the genus Dolichoderus. Described by Mayr in 1868, the fossils were discovered in the Baltic Amber.[1]

Dolichoderus longipennis
Temporal range: Middle to Late Eocene
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Holotype queen in Baltic amber
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Dolichoderus
Species:
†D. longipennis
Binomial name
†Dolichoderus longipennis
(Mayr, 1868)
Synonyms
  • Hypoclinea longipennis

References
  1. Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beiträge zur Naturkunde Preussens. Königlichen Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 1: 1-102. [(31.xii).1868.] PDF (page 67, pl. 4, fig. 65 male described) PDF


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