Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: A. Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau. 1835. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Tome Premier 1-547
Parent taxon: Poneria according to J. T. Oberski et al. 2025
See also Bolton 2003, Bolton 2012, Boudinot et al. 2020, 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 taxon: Agroparaponeria
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), Czechia (1), the Dominican Republic (6), Ethiopia (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Mexico (2), 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: 71 collections including 156 occurrences