Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Alternative combination: Ponerites karaganensis

Full reference: G. M. Dlussky. 1981. Miocenovye muravwi (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) CCCP. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 183:64-83

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

See also Bolton 2012 and Dlussky 1981

Sister taxa: Taphopone aberrans, Taphopone macroptera, Taphopone microptera, Taphopone petrosa, Taphopone stauropolitanus

Type specimen: PIN 254/2737, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Vishnevaya Balka creek, outcrop 1 bed 1, Stavropol (PIN collection 254), which is in a Miocene lacustrine shale in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Vishnevaya Balka creek, outcrop 1 bed 1, Stavropol (PIN collection 254)

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