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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Formicinae
›
Camponotini
›
†
Eocamponotus
›
†
Eocamponotus mengei
†
Eocamponotus
mengei
(Mayr, 1868)
valid
†
Camponotus mengei
Mayr, 1868c
: 27, pl. 1, figs. 1, 8 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
Combination in
†
Eocamponotus
:
Boudinot, 2024a
: 144.
Status as species:
Mayr, 1877a
: 20 (in list);
Scudder, 1891
: 692;
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 242;
André, 1895b
: 82 (in list);
Handlirsch, 1907
: 867;
Wheeler, 1915i
: 138;
Théobald, 1937a
: 217;
Burnham, 1979
: 115;
Keilbach, 1982
: 280;
Bolton, 1995b
: 111;
Dlussky & Perkovsky, 2002
: 11;
Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009
: 1030;
Perkovsky, 2016
: 114;
Boudinot, 2024a
: 144.
Senior synonym of
†
Eocamponotus igneus
:
Wheeler, 1915i
: 138;
Théobald, 1937a
: 217;
Bolton, 1995b
: 111;
Dlussky & Perkovsky, 2002
: 11;
Boudinot, 2024a
: 144.
Junior synonyms
†
Eocamponotus igneus
(Mayr, 1868)
Obsolete combination(s):
†
Camponotus igneus
Obsolete combinations
†
Camponotus mengei
Citations
André, Ern.
1895b.
Notice sur les fourmis fossiles de l'ambre de la Baltique et description de deux espèces nouvelles.
Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 20:80-84.
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Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Boudinot, B. E.
2024a.
[Untitled.
Eocamponotus
gen. nov. attributed to B. E. Boudinot.].
Pp. 144, 146, 147 in:
Boudinot, B. E.
;
Bock, B. L.
;
Weingardt, M.
;
Tröger, D.
;
Batelka, J.
;
Li, D.
;
Richter, A.
;
Pohl, H.
;
Moosdorf, O. T. D.
;
Jandausch, K.
;
Hammel, J. U.
;
Beutel, R. G.
2024.
Et latet et lucet
: Discoveries from the Phyletisches Museum amber and copal collection in Jena, Germany.
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 71 (1):111-176. [online early].
PDF
Burnham, L.
1979 ("1978").
Survey of social insects in the fossil record.
Psyche (Cambridge) 85:85-133.
PDF
Dalla Torre, K. W.
1893.
Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna).
Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp.
PDF
Dlussky, G. M.
;
Perkovsky, E. E.
2002.
Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Rovno Amber. [In Russian.].
Vestnik Zoologii 36(5):3-20.
PDF
Dlussky, G. M.
;
Rasnitsyn, A. P.
2009.
Ants (Insecta: Vespida: Formicidae) in the Upper Eocene amber of central and eastern Europe.
Paleontological Journal 43:1024-1042.
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Handlirsch, A.
1907.
Die fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der rezenten Formen. Ein Handbuch für Paläontologen und Zoologen. Lieferung 6.
Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pp. 801-960.
Keilbach, R.
1982.
Bibliographie und Liste der Arten tierischer Einschlüsse in fossilen Harzen sowie ihrer Aufbewahrungsorte. Teil 1.
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (N.F.)29:129-286.
Mayr, G.
1868c.
Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins.
Beiträge zur Naturkunde Preussens 1:1-102.
PDF
Mayr, G.
1877a.
Formicidae. [In Russian.].
In:
Fedchenko, A. P.
1877.
Travels in Turkestan. Vol. 2, Div. 5, No. 7. [In Russian.].
Izvestiya Imperatorskago Obshchestva Lyubitelei Estestvoznaniya Antropologii i Etnografii pri Imperatorskom Moskovskom Universitete 26:i-iii, 1-20 (+1).
Perkovsky, E. E.
2016.
Tropical and Holarctic ants in Late Eocene ambers.
Vestnik Zoologii 50 (2):111-122.
10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014
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Scudder, S. H.
1891.
Index to the known fossil insects of the world, including myriapods and arachnids.
Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 71:1-744.
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Théobald, N.
1937a.
Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France.
Nancy: G. Thomas, 473 pp.
PDF
Wheeler, W. M.
1915i ("1914").
The ants of the Baltic Amber.
Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55:1-142.
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