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The Ant Prenolepis Imparis Say.*

1930; Oxford University Press; Volume: 23; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/aesa/23.1.1

1938-2901

William Morton Wheeler,

Fossil Insects in Amber

To the myrmecologist the ants that belong to the ancient preglacial circumpolar fauna are of unusual interest, and among these none is more deserving of study than the small, shining, brown or yellowish Prenolepis imparis, because it is almost indistinguishable from P. henschei Mayr, a species that flourished in the amber forests of the Lower Oligocene Tertiary of northern Europe. In addition to its great antiquity and its extraordinary morphological stability throughout postoligocene time, P. imparis also exhibits certain behavioristic peculiarities which have not been sufficiently emphazied in the literature.