Emplastus biamoensis nom. n., a replacement name for ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Bol’shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East)

Abstract

Emplastus biamoensis nom. n. is proposed as replacement name for the female ant Emplastus dubius Dlussky, Rasnitsyn et Perfilieva, 2015 from Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East, because of homonymy with E. dubius Dlussky et Putyatina, 2014. Comparison of the renamed species with congeners is updated.

Keywords

• Hymenoptera
• Formicidae
• Emplastus
• new name
• Russian Far East
• Late Eocene
• Radoboj
• Miocene