page_title: Emplastus
section_title: E. hypolithus
hierarchical_section_title: Emplastus / Description / E. hypolithus
caption_attribution_description: English: Closeup of Emplastus hypolithus specimen wing. Natural History Museum, London specimen BMNHP24988
context_page_description: Emplastus is an extinct morphogenus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae, known from fossils found in Asia and Europe. The genus contains twelve species described from sites in England, Eastern Europe and Far Eastern Russia.
context_section_description: The species was redescribed from fourteen isolated wings and a single 6.5 mm (0.26 in) long male in 2014.  The species is distinguishable by the notably narrow rm cell of the forewing, which mostly takes a triangular shape, but sometimes is quadrangular. The mid-sized cmu cell is trapezoidal and the rs-m cross-vein is usually placed on the wing tip side of the 2r-rs vein.  The male has a small head with compound eyes located anterior to the head's midpoint.  The scutellum is weakly rounded and about half the length of the mesosoma.
caption: E. hypolithus wing
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