Emplastus hypolitha

Emplastus hypolitha
Temporal range: 36–32Ma

Late Eocene to Early Oligocene

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Emplastus
Species: E. hypolitha
Binomial name
Emplastus hypolitha
(Cockerell, 1915)

Emplastus hypolitha is an extinct species of ant in the genus Emplastus. Described by Donisthorpe in 1915, a fossil was found in the United Kingdom.[1]

References

  1. Cockerell, T. D. A. 1915. British fossil insects. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 49: 469-499 (page 483, pl. 64, figs. 3, 4 wing described)