Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: G. M. Dlussky, D. J. Brothers, and A. P. Rasnitsyn. 2004. The first Late Cretaceous ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from southern Africa, with comments on the origin of the Myrmicinae. Insect Systematics & Evolution 35:1-13

Belongs to Afropone according to B. Bolton 2012

See also Dlussky et al. 2004

Sister taxon: Afropone oculata

Type specimen: BP/2/26628/1, an exoskeleton (lateral view). Its type locality is Orapa (Bernard Price Institute), which is in a Turonian lacustrine - large mudstone in Botswana.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Orapa (Bernard Price Institute)

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