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Pachycondyla dubia

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Brachyponera dubia was named by Theobald (1937). Its type specimen is Bale Museum R 749(2005), an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Kleinkembs, which is in a Rupelian lacustrine - large marl/limestone in the Salt Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Pachycondyla dubia by Bolton (2012), Schmidt and Shattuck (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Brachyponera dubia Theobald p. 196 figs. Pl IV fig 15
2012Pachycondyla dubia Bolton
2014Pachycondyla dubia Schmidt and Shattuck

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
Athalassocarida
LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
Cercofilata
classInsecta
Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
Antennoclypeata
subfamilyPonerinae
tribePonerini
genusPachycondylaSmith 1858
speciesdubia()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Pachycondyla dubia Theobald 1937
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Rupelian to the top of the Chattian or 33.90000 to 23.04000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 2333.9 - 27.3France Brachyponera dubia (122536)
Rupelian33.9 - 27.3Germany Brachyponera dubia (type locality: 122407)
Chattian27.3 - 23.04France (Bouches-Du-Rhone) Brachyponera dubia (122501)