Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: G. M. Dlussky. 2002. Syntypes of Baltic amber ants Formica flori Mayr and Ponera atavia Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Russian Entomological Journal 11:291-298
Belongs to Pachycondyla according to C. A. Schmidt and S. O. Shattuck 2014
See also Bolton 2012, Dlussky 2002 and Dlussky 2009
Sister taxa: Pachycondyla aberrans, 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 petiolosa, Pachycondyla petrosa, Pachycondyla succinea, Pachycondyla tristis
Type specimen: NHMW 1984/31/255, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Naturhistorisches Museum in Wien (NHMW) collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Naturhistorisches Museum in Wien (NHMW) collection
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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