Tapinoma minutissimum
| †Tapinoma minutissimum Temporal range: Oligocene | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Genus: | Tapinoma |
| Species: | †T. minutissimum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Tapinoma minutissimum Emery, 1891 | |
Tapinoma minutissimum is an extinct Oligocene species of ant in the genus Tapinoma. Described by Emery in 1891, fossils of the species were found in the Sicilian amber, where a fossilised male of the species was described.[1]
References
- ↑ Emery, C. 1891b. Le formiche dell'ambra Siciliana nel Museo Mineralogico dell'Università di Bologna. Mem. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna (5)1:141-165
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