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 Pachycondyla according to G. M. Dlussky et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Pachycondyla aberrans, Pachycondyla baltica, Pachycondyla calcarea, Pachycondyla conservata, Pachycondyla dubia, Pachycondyla eocenica, Pachycondyla globiventris, Pachycondyla gracilicornis, Pachycondyla labandeirai, Pachycondyla lutzi, Pachycondyla messeliana, Pachycondyla minutansata, Pachycondyla nubeculata, Pachycondyla parvula, Pachycondyla petiolosa, Pachycondyla petrosa, Pachycondyla succinea, Pachycondyla tristis
Type specimen: PIN 3429/1112, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bolshaya Svetlovodnaya, Biamo, layer 1 (PIN collection 3429), which is in a Priabonian lacustrine diatomite in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bolshaya Svetlovodnaya, Biamo, layer 1 (PIN collection 3429)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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