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 lobulifera, Ponera wheeleri
Type specimen: MZ PAN 11487, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Museum Ziemi collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Poland (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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