Dolichoderus pinguis
| Dolichoderus pinguis Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Genus: | Dolichoderus |
| Species: | †D. pinguis
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| †Dolichoderus pinguis Dlussky, Rasnitsyn & Perfilieva, 2015
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Dolichoderus pinguis is an
History and classification
Dolichoderus pinguis is known from a single ant found in Russia.
At the time of description, the holotype specimen, number PIN 3429/1134 was preserved in the A. A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute collections, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The fossil was first described by the trio of paleomyrmecologists Gennady Dlussky, Alexandr Rasnitsyn and Ksenia Perfilieva. In the type description, Dlussky, Rasnitsyn and Perfilieva named the species D. pinguis, with the specific epithet derived from the Latin "pinguis", which means fat.[1]
Dolichoderus pinguis is one of over forty five species in Dolichoderus that have been described from fossils, and is the only one to have been described from a male, all others being described from females.[1]
Description
Dolichoderus pinguis was described from a lone 6.3 mm (0.25 in) long male preserved as a partial profile impression, missing portions of the legs, wings, and antennae. The head is shorter than it is long with rounded sides in the areas of the compound eyes. The eyes are big, being about half the length of the head. On the mesosoma, the