Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: G. M. Dlussky, A. P. Rasnitsyn, and K. S. Perfilieva. 2015. The ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya (late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian far east). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11:131-152
Belongs to Liometopum according to G. M. Dlussky et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Liometopum bogdassarovi, Liometopum eremicum, Liometopum imhoffii, Liometopum lubricum, Liometopum miocenicum, Liometopum oligocenicum, Liometopum palaeopterum, Liometopum potamophilum, Liometopum scudderi, Poneropsis brunascens, Poneropsis crassinervis, Poneropsis escheri, Poneropsis globosa, Poneropsis veneraria, Poneropsis longaeva, Poneropsis schmidtii, Poneropsis rhenana, Poneropsis stygia, Poneropsis ventrosa, Poneropsis fuliginosa, Poneropsis imhoffii
Type specimen: PIN 3429/1157, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bolshaya Svetlovodnaya, Biamo, layer 5 (PIN collection 3429), which is in a Priabonian lacustrine diatomite in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bolshaya Svetlovodnaya, Biamo, layer 5 (PIN collection 3429)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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