Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Synonym: Poneropsis Heer 1867
Parent taxon: Tapinomini according to B. Bolton 2012
See also Bolton 2003, Carpenter 1992, Dlussky and Putyatina 2014, Dlussky et al. 2015, Emery 1913, Hong and Wang 1985, Scudder 1877 and Shattuck 1994
Sister taxa: Ctenobethylus, Tapinoma, Technomyrmex
Subtaxa: Liometopum bogdassarovi Liometopum eremicum Liometopum imhoffii Liometopum incognitum Liometopum lubricum Liometopum miocenicum Liometopum oligocenicum Liometopum potamophilum Liometopum scudderi Poneropsis brunascens Poneropsis crassinervis Poneropsis escheri Poneropsis fuliginosa Poneropsis globosa Poneropsis imhoffii Poneropsis longaeva Poneropsis rhenana Poneropsis schmidtii Poneropsis stygia Poneropsis veneraria Poneropsis ventrosa
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of Austria (1 collection), China (3), Croatia (5), Germany (5)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Belarus (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (10: Colorado, Wyoming)
Total: 29 collections including 45 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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