Emplastus elongatus, Dlussky & Rasnitsyn & Perfilieva, 2015

Dlussky, G. M., Rasnitsyn, A. P. & Perfilieva, K. S., 2015, The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol’shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East), Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (1), pp. 131-152 : 135

publication ID

51753

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6105340

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0B04695E-FFF1-6647-FC0A-FC14FA8CFA70

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scientific name

Emplastus elongatus
status

sp. n.

Emplastus elongatus sp. n.

( Fig. 7)

Material. Holotype PIN 3429/1115, male.Biamo.

Description. Male. Body length 6.3 mm. Head wider than long, with rounded occipital corners and convex occipital margin. Anterior clypeal margin feebly rounded. Eyes oval, large; head 1.8 times longer than maximum eye diameter. Ocelli large. Mesosoma elongate, twice longer than high and more than 3times longer than head. Scutum strongly convex, 2.3times shorter than mesosoma. Propodeum rounded in side view. Petiole triangular in side view, more long than high. Wing venation not preserved.

Measurements of holotype, mm: AL2.5; HL0.75; HW0.78; ED0.4; SctL1.1.

Comparison. Differs from other described species except E. macrops sp. n. by large eyes. Differs from E. macrops sp. n. by more elongate mesosoma and more convex scutum.

Etymology. Elongatus is the Latin for elongated.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Emplastus

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