Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: G. M. Dlussky. 2009. The ant subfamilies Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae, and Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the late Eocene ambers of Europe. Paleontological Journal 43:1043-1086
Belongs to Pachycondyla according to C. A. Schmidt and S. O. Shattuck 2014
See also Bolton 2012 and Dlussky 2009
Sister taxa: Pachycondyla aberrans, Pachycondyla baltica, Pachycondyla calcarea, 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: SIZK K-4456, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Rovno Amber, Klesov locality (SIZC K collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Ukraine.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Rovno Amber, Klesov locality (SIZC K collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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