Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Crimea. / Perfilieva, K. S.; Dubovikoff, D. A.; Dlussky, G. M.
In: Paleontological Journal, Vol. 51, No. 4, 07.2017, p. 391-401.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
}
TY - JOUR
T1 - Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Crimea
AU - Perfilieva, K. S.
AU - Dubovikoff, D. A.
AU - Dlussky, G. M.
PY - 2017/7
Y1 - 2017/7
N2 - Ant imprints, new and previously known, from Middle Miocene deposits near Kerch (Crimean Peninsula, Russia) are described or redescribed. A new Myrmicinae species, Solenopsis atavinus sp. nov., is described based on a wingless female. A winged female similar to the earlier described Dolichoderus tauricus Dlussky, 1981 is found: due to the excellent preservation of this specimen, the new specimen and the holotype of D. tauricus are redescribed and can be reclassified as Ponerites tauricus (Dlussky, 1981), comb. nov. Oecophylla taurica sp. nov. is described based on a partly preserved imprint of a female thorax with a forewing, the venation of which allows it to be positively identified as a weaver ant. Two other species are transferred from the formal genus Camponotites to Oecophylla based on forewing venation: O. kraussei (Dlussky et Rasnitsyn, 1999), comb. nov. (Early Eocene, United States) and O. macroptera (Dlussky, 1981), comb. nov. (Middle Miocene, Stavropol, Russia). One of the studied forewing imprints is similar in venation to Paraphaenogaster microphthalmus Dlussky, 1981, described from the Middle Miocene of Vishnevaya Balka (Stavropol province, Russia) and so is attributed to this species. Dolichoderus tavridus sp. nov. is described based on a forewing.
AB - Ant imprints, new and previously known, from Middle Miocene deposits near Kerch (Crimean Peninsula, Russia) are described or redescribed. A new Myrmicinae species, Solenopsis atavinus sp. nov., is described based on a wingless female. A winged female similar to the earlier described Dolichoderus tauricus Dlussky, 1981 is found: due to the excellent preservation of this specimen, the new specimen and the holotype of D. tauricus are redescribed and can be reclassified as Ponerites tauricus (Dlussky, 1981), comb. nov. Oecophylla taurica sp. nov. is described based on a partly preserved imprint of a female thorax with a forewing, the venation of which allows it to be positively identified as a weaver ant. Two other species are transferred from the formal genus Camponotites to Oecophylla based on forewing venation: O. kraussei (Dlussky et Rasnitsyn, 1999), comb. nov. (Early Eocene, United States) and O. macroptera (Dlussky, 1981), comb. nov. (Middle Miocene, Stavropol, Russia). One of the studied forewing imprints is similar in venation to Paraphaenogaster microphthalmus Dlussky, 1981, described from the Middle Miocene of Vishnevaya Balka (Stavropol province, Russia) and so is attributed to this species. Dolichoderus tavridus sp. nov. is described based on a forewing.
KW - Middle Miocene
KW - fossils ants
KW - Formicidae
KW - Oecophylla
KW - Solenopsis
KW - Crimea
KW - LATE EOCENE
U2 - 10.1134/S0031030117040098
DO - 10.1134/S0031030117040098
M3 - статья
VL - 51
SP - 391
EP - 401
JO - Paleontological Journal
JF - Paleontological Journal
SN - 0031-0301
IS - 4
ER -
ID: 9149576