Pachycondyla labandeirai Dlussky and Rasnitsyn 2002 (ant)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: G. M. Dlussky and A. P. Rasnitsyn. 2002. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Formation Green River and some other middle Eocene deposits of North America. Russian Entomological Journal 11:411-436

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

See also Bolton 2012 and Dlussky and Rasnitsyn 2002

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

Type specimen: USNM 404747, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Little Mountain, locality 41427-25, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Little Mountain, locality 41427-25

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