Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: G. M. Dlussky and S. Wedmann. 2012. The poneromorph ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae: Amblyoponinae, Ectatomminae, Ponerinae) of Grube Messel, Germany: high biodiversity in the Eocene. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10:725-753

Belongs to Pachycondyla according to C. A. Schmidt and S. O. Shattuck 2014

See also Dlussky and Wedmann 2012

Sister taxa: Pachycondyla aberrans, Pachycondyla baltica, Pachycondyla calcarea, Pachycondyla conservata, Pachycondyla dubia, Pachycondyla eocenica, Pachycondyla globiventris, Pachycondyla gracilicornis, Pachycondyla labandeirai, Pachycondyla lutzi, Pachycondyla messeliana, Pachycondyla minutansata, Pachycondyla nubeculata, Pachycondyla oligocenica, Pachycondyla parvula, Pachycondyla petrosa, Pachycondyla succinea, Pachycondyla tristis

Type specimen: FIS MeI 1893, an exoskeleton (winged gyne). Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit (Senckenberg SMF collection), which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Grube Messel Pit (Senckenberg SMF collection)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.