Biology:Tapinoma glaesaria

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Short description: Species of ant

Tapinoma glaesaria
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Tapinoma
Species:
T. glaesaria
Binomial name
Tapinoma glaesaria
Perrichot, Salas-Gismondi & Antoine, 2019

Tapinoma glaesaria is an extinct species of ant in the genus Tapinoma. Originally described by Gennady Dlussky in 2002 as Tapinoma aberrans, fossils of the species were found in the Rovno amber in Ukraine .[1] The original specific name was a secondary homonym of Tapinoma aberrans (Santschi, 1911), an extant species from Madagascar . Perrichot, Salas-Gismondi & Antoine (2019) coined a replacement name T. glaesaria for the taxon described by Dlussky.[2]

References

  1. Dlussky , G. M.; Perkovsky, E.E. 2002. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Rovno amber. Vestnik Zoologii 36(5): 3-20, 99 PDF
  2. Vincent Perrichot; Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi; Pierre-Olivier Antoine (2019). "The ant genus Tapinoma Förster (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) in Miocene amber of Peru". Palaeoentomology 2 (6): 585–590. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.6.8. 

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