†Ponera wheeleri Dlussky 2009 (ant)
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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 mayri
Type specimen: MfN 11/229, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber (MfN collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Germany (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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