Desyopone Boudinot and Perrichot 2022 (ant)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: B. E. Boudinot and V. Perrichot. 2022. Taxonomic names, in Genomic-phenomic reciprocal illumination: Desyopone hereon gen. et sp. nov., an exceptional aneuretine-like fossil ant from Ethiopian amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Insects 13(796)

Parent taxon: Ponerini according to B. E. Boudinot and V. Perrichot 2022

Sister taxa: Anochetus, Archiponera, Austroponera, Brachyponera, Euponera, Hypoponera, Leptogenys, Mesoponera, Neoponera, Odontomachus, Odontoponera, Pachycondyla, Ponera, Ponerites

Subtaxa: Desyopone hereon

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Type: Desyopone hereon

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Ethiopian amber (MAIG collection) (Miocene of Ethiopia)

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