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.[1]

Tapinoma minutissimum
Temporal range: Oligocene
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

References

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  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