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Tapinoma minutissimum

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Species of ant

Tapinoma minutissimum
Temporal range: Oligocene PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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, specimens of the species were found in Sicilian amber, whence a fossilised male of the species was described.

References

  1. 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
Taxon identifiers
Tapinoma minutissimum


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