Procerapachys favosus Wheeler 1915 (army ant)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: W. M. Wheeler. 1915. The Ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55:1-142

Belongs to Procerapachys according to M. L. Borowiec 2016

See also Dlussky 2009, Spahr 1987 and Wheeler 1915

Sister taxa: Procerapachys annosus, Procerapachys sulcatus

Type specimen: B 18239, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection

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