Emplastus
| †Emplastus Temporal range: Fossil | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Genus: | †Emplastus Donisthorpe, 1920 |
| Type species | |
| Emplastus emeryi, now Emplastus britannicus | |
| Diversity | |
| 9 Fossil species | |
Emplastus is an extinct genus of ants of the subfamily Dolichoderinae. It was first described in 1920.[1]
Species
There are twelve fossil species described under the Emplastus genus.[2]
- Emplastus antiquus Mayr, 1867
- Emplastus biamoensis Perfilieva & Rasnitsyn, 2015[3]
- Emplastus britannicus Cockerell, 1915
- Emplastus dubius Dlussky & Putyatina, 2014
- Emplastus elongates Dlussky, Rasnitsyn & Perfilieva, 2015[4]
- Emplastus gurnetensis Donisthorpe, 1920
- Emplastus haueri Mayr, 1867
- Emplastus hypolitha Cockerell, 1915
- Emplastus kozlovi Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014
- Emplastus macrops Dlussky, Rasnitsyn & Perfilieva, 2015[4]
- Emplastus miocenicus Dlussky & Putyatina, 2014
- Emplastus ocellus Heer, 1849
References
- ↑ Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 164, Emplastus in Ponerinae, Ponerini)
- ↑ Bolton, Barry. "An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton". antcat.org. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- ↑ K.S. Perfilieva and Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn (2015). "Emplastus biamoensis nom. n., a replacement name for ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East)". Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (2): 405–406.
- 1 2 G.M. Dlussky, Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn and K.S. Perfilieva (2015). "The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol’shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East)" (PDF). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (1): 131–152.
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