Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Alternative combination: Sima lacrimarum
Full reference: W. M. Wheeler. 1915. The Ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55:1-142
Belongs to Tetraponera according to G. M. Dlussky 2009
See also Dlussky 2002, Spahr 1987 and Wheeler 1915
Sister taxa: Tetraponera europaea, Tetraponera groehni, Tetraponera klebsi, Tetraponera ocellata, Tetraponera oligocenica, Tetraponera simplex
Type specimen: Klebs X 2, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Klebs collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Germany (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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