Myrmecites dubius, Dlussky & Rasnitsyn & Perfilieva, 2015

Dlussky, G. M., Rasnitsyn, A. P. & Perfilieva, K. S., 2015, The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol’shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East), Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (1), pp. 131-152 : 145

publication ID

51753

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6105446

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0B04695E-FFFB-664D-FEA2-F898FAEBF8AD

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scientific name

Myrmecites dubius
status

sp. n.

Myrmecites dubius sp. n.

( Fig. 31)

Material. Holotype PIN 3429/1116(+/–), gyne without head.

Description. Gyne. Body length ca. 4.5 mm. Eyes situated in front of lateral midlength of head. Mesosoma 1.5times as long as wide. Scutum does not overhang pronotum, 1.3 times as long as wide. Parapsidal furrows present. Scutellum a little longer than wide. Petiole comparatively short, a little longer than wide. Postpetiole a little wider than long and a little longer than petiole. Petiolar dorsum rugulose.

Measurements of holotype, mm:AL1.5; SctL0.77; SctW0.64; SctlL0.26; SctlW0.24; PtL0.31; PtW0.35; PptL0.33; PptW0.35.

Comparison. Differs from M.sibiricus sp.n. in short petiole.

Etymology. Dubius is the Latin for uncertain.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Myrmecites

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