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Pachycondyla calcarea

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Euponera calcarea was named by Theobald (1937). Its type specimen is Bale Museum R 147, 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 calcarea by Bolton (2012) and Schmidt and Shattuck (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Euponera calcarea Theobald p. 198 figs. Pl IV fig 8; Pl XIII fig 17
2012Pachycondyla calcarea Bolton
2014Pachycondyla calcarea 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
speciescalcarea()

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 calcarea Theobald 1937
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available