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Pachycondyla succinea

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Ponera succinea was named by Mayr (1868). Its type specimen is No. 640/10 277, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber.

It was recombined as Euponera succinea by Wheeler (1915); it was recombined as Pachycondyla succinea by Spahr (1987), Dlussky (2009) and Schmidt and Shattuck (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1868Ponera succinea Mayr p. 72
1915Euponera succinea Wheeler
1987Pachycondyla succinea Spahr p. 57
2009Pachycondyla succinea Dlussky p. 1051 figs. 4a-e
2014Pachycondyla succinea Schmidt and Shattuck

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
—Antennoclypeata
subfamilyPonerinae
tribePonerini
genusPachycondylaSmith 1858
speciessuccinea()

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 succinea Mayr 1868
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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: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (11 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Ukraine Pachycondyla succinea (122997)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Pachycondyla succinea (120813) Ponera succinea (109625 120811)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Lithuania Pachycondyla succinea (113470)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Euponera succinea (124073) Pachycondyla succinea (123766) Ponera succinea (123927)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Denmark Pachycondyla succinea (123762)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Germany (Halle) Pachycondyla succinea (129227 129228)