Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: A. Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau. 1835. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Tome Premier 1-547
Parent taxon: Antennoclypeata according to B. E. Boudinot et al. 2020
See also Bolton 2003, Bolton 2012, Dlussky 1975, Dlussky et al. 2004, Dlussky and Perfilieva 2014, Dlussky et al. 2015, Dlussky and Wedmann 2012, Kaulfuss and Dlussky 2016, Wappler 2003 and Zhang 1989
Sister taxa: Brownimeciinae, Cananeuretus, Canapone, Dolichoderinae, Formicinae
Subtaxa: Afropone Cephalopone Cyrtopone Eogorgites Eoponerites Furcisutura Longicapitia Messelepone Platythyreini Ponerini Poneropsis pallida Protopone Taphopone
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Colombia (2 collections), Indonesia (1), Madagascar (1), Tanzania (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of China (4), Croatia (4), the Czech Republic (1), the Dominican Republic (6), Ethiopia (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (2)
• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (2)
• Eocene of China (2), Denmark (1), France (2), Germany (3), Lithuania (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (10), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (7: Colorado, Montana, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Botswana (1), Myanmar (1)
Total: 70 collections including 155 occurrences