Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: U. Kaulfuss and G. M. Dlussky. 2016. Early Miocene Formicidae (Amblyoponinae, Ectatomminae, ?Dolichoderinae, Formicinae, and Ponerinae) from the Foulden Maar fossil Lagerstätte, New Zealand, and their biogeographic relevance. Journal of Paleontology 89:1043-1055
Belongs to Rhytidoponera according to G. P. Camacho et al. 2022
See also Kaulfuss and Dlussky 2016
Sister taxa: Rhytidoponera araneoides, Rhytidoponera gibsoni, Rhytidoponera kirghizorum
Type specimen: OU44899, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Foulden maar (I43/f8503), which is in an Aquitanian crater lake diatomite in the Foulden Hills Diatomite Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Foulden maar (I43/f8503)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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