Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: C. Aria, V. Perrichot, and A. Nel. 2011. Fossil Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Early Eocene amber of France. Zootaxa 2870:53-62
Belongs to Platythyrea according to C. A. Schmidt and S. O. Shattuck 2014
See also Aria et al. 2011 and Bolton 2012
Sister taxa: Platythyrea dentata, Platythyrea parallela, Platythyrea primaeva, Platythyrea procera, Platythyrea pumilio, Platythyrea scalpra
Type specimen: MNHN A32915, an exoskeleton (worker). Its type locality is Oise amber, Le Quesnoy, which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in the Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation of France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Oise amber, Le Quesnoy
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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