Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Synonym: Pachycondyla minuta Dlussky and Wedmann 2012 [replaced name]

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

See also Dlussky and Wedmann 2012 and Schmidt and Shattuck 2014

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 oligocenica, Pachycondyla petiolosa, Pachycondyla petrosa, Pachycondyla succinea, Pachycondyla tristis

Type specimens:

• Pachycondyla parvula: FIS MeI 10638, an exoskeleton
• Pachycondyla minuta: FIS MeI 10638, an exoskeleton (gyne). Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit (Senckenberg SMF collection), which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Grube Messel Pit (Senckenberg SMF collection) (Eocene of Germany)

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