Apterostigma eowilsoni (lat.) - fossil species of mushroom ants (Attini) from the subfamily Myrmicinae . Dominican amber , Central America , Miocene , find age 16-19 million years. The first fossil representative of the genus Apterostigma [1] .
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Description
Small ants. Body length about 3 mm, head length 0.99 mm, head width 0.68 mm. Hind legs 1.37 mm long. Antennae 11-segmented; apical segment 2.25 times longer than subapical. Mandibles carry 11 teeth on the chewing margin. Pronotum and mesonotum convex, propodeum rounded. The body is covered with numerous spaced hairs [1] . The species was first described in 2007 by American worldmecologist Ted Schultz (Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution , Washington , USA ) along with other fossil ants such as Apterostigma electropilosum . The species name Apterostigma eowilsoni is given in honor of the prominent American worldmecologist Academician Edward Osborne Wilson ( EOWilson ). The first fossil representative of the genus Apterostigma , previously only 3 species were known from fossil ants in fossil form: Trachymyrmex primaevus (Baroni Urbani, 1980) , Cyphomyrmex maya , and C. taino (de Andrade, 2003) [1] [2] [3 ] ] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Schultz, TR The fungus-growing ant genus Apterostigma in Dominican amber (pp. 425-436). In Snelling, RR, Fisher, BL & Ward, PS (eds). Advances in ant systematics: homage to EO Wilson - 50 years of contributions (Eng.) // Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute: journal. - 2007. - Vol. 80 . - P. 1-690 (pp. 425-436) . .
- ↑ paleobiodb.org: † Apterostigma eowilsoni .
- ↑ de Andrade, ML 2003. First descriptions of two new amber species of Cyphomyrmex from Mexico and the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 53: 131-139.
Literature
- Baroni Urbani, C. 1980. First description of fossil gardening ants (Amber Collection Stuttgart and Natural History Museum Basel; Hymenoptera: Formicidae. I: Attini). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, B 54: 1-13.
- Schultz, TR & Meier, R. 1995. A phylogenetic analysis of the fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini) based on morphological characters of the larvae. Systematic Entomology 20: 337-370.