Tetraponera europaea Dlussky 2009 (ant)

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 Tetraponera according to B. Bolton 2012

See also Dlussky 2009

Sister taxa: Tetraponera groehni, Tetraponera klebsi, Tetraponera lacrimarum, Tetraponera ocellata, Tetraponera oligocenica, Tetraponera simplex

Type specimen: SIZK K-3626, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Rovno Amber, Klesov locality (SIZC K collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Ukraine.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Germany (1 collection), Ukraine (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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