Emplastus dubius, 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.6105342

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0B04695E-FFF1-6647-FC1D-FA22FC44F853

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scientific name

Emplastus dubius
status

sp. n.

Emplastus dubius sp. n.

( Fig. 8)

Material. Holotype PIN 3429/109, gyne. Biamo.

Description. Gyne. Body length 5.05mm. Posterior margin of head convex. Eyes comparatively small, oval, displaced forward; gena shorter than maximum eye diameter. Mesosoma 1.4times as long as high. Scutum comparatively short, only 1.1 times as long as scutellum. Propodeum straight in side view. Petiole with small scale inclined forward.

Measurements of holotype, mm: AL 1.4; HL 1; ED 0.22; SctL0.54; SctlL0.49.

Comparison. Emplastus britannicus and E.gurnetensis are also described after the female sex: they differ from E.dubius sp. n. in having petiolar scale thicker and higher. Emplastus britannicus additionally differs in being bigger (body length 6–8.5mm).

Etymology. Dubius is the Latin for uncertain, doubtful.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Emplastus

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