New Extinct Species of the Ant Genus Carebara (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Late Eocene European Ambers

Two new fossil Carebara Westwood (1840) species are described from the Late Eocene Bitterfeld and Baltic ambers: C. kutscheri sp. nov. is described based on soldier and workers, and formally could be attributed to the former genus Pheidologeton Mayr, 1862 (now junior synonym of Carebara); its workers differ clearly from those of any known fossil Carebara species by the much bigger, well-developed eyes, while eyes in the other species are...