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Ponerites crawleyi

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Euponera (Mesoponera) crawleyi was named by Donisthorpe (1920). Its type specimen is BMNH I.8675, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Ponerites crawleyi by Dlussky and Perfilieva (2014); it was recombined as Pachycondyla crawleyi by Bolton (2012) and Schmidt and Shattuck (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1920Euponera (Mesoponera) crawleyi Donisthorpe p. 85 figs. Pl 5, fig 3
2012Pachycondyla crawleyi Bolton
2014Ponerites crawleyi Dlussky and Perfilieva p. 427 figs. Pl 22, fig 1; text-fig 79A-E
2014Pachycondyla crawleyi 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
genusPonerites
speciescrawleyi()

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.

†Ponerites crawleyi Donisthorpe 1920
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available