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 Ponera according to C. A. Schmidt and S. O. Shattuck 2014
See also Bolton 2012 and Dlussky 2009
Sister taxa: Ponera elegantissima, Ponera leptocephala, Ponera mayri, Ponera wheeleri
Type specimen: GZG.BST.03872, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Göttingen GZG collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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