Ponerites crawleyi Donisthorpe 1920

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Alternative combinations: Euponera (Mesoponera) crawleyi, Pachycondyla crawleyi

Full reference: H. S.t. J. Donisthorpe. 1920. British Oligocene Ants. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9 6:81-94

Belongs to Ponerites according to G. M. Dlussky and K. S. Perfilieva 2014

See also Bolton 2012, Donisthorpe 1920 and Schmidt and Shattuck 2014

Sister taxa: Ponerites antropovi, Ponerites atavinus, Ponerites coloradensis, Ponerites elongatus, Ponerites eocenicus, Ponerites gracilior, Ponerites hooleyi, Ponerites hypoponeroides, Ponerites kishenehne, Ponerites nitidus, Ponerites oblongiceps, Ponerites tauricus, Ponerites tenuis, Ponerites umbrus

Type specimen: BMNH I.8675, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll)

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