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Dolichoderus pilipes

Dolichoderus pilipes is an extinct species of Eocene ant in the genus Dolichoderus. Described by Dlussky in 2008, fossils of the species have been found in multiple ambers, notably the Rovno amber and the Scandinavian amber.

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Dolichoderus pilipes Rovno amber and the Scandinavian amber
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Dolichoderus
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D. pilipes
Binomial name
Dolichoderus pilipes
Dlussky, 2008

Dolichoderus pilipes is an extinct species of Eocene ant in the genus Dolichoderus. Described by Dlussky in 2008, fossils of the species have been found in multiple ambers, notably the Rovno amber and the Scandinavian amber.1

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  1. Dlussky, G.M. 2008b. Novye vidy murav’ev roda Dolichoderus pozdneyeotsenovykh yantarei Evropy. Vestnik Zoologii 46: 497-514. PDF