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Bradoponera meieri
| †Bradoponera meieri Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Proceratiinae |
| Tribe: | Proceratiini |
| Genus: | Bradoponera |
| Species: | †B. meieri |
| Binomial name | |
| †Bradoponera meieri Mayr, 1868 | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and is also known from Bitterfeld amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and Rovno amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Priabonian, Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †meieri. †Bradoponera meieri Mayr, 1868b: 74, pl. 4, figs. 70, 71 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
- [Misspelled as meyeri by Dlussky, 2009: 1066, Perkovsky, 2016: 115.]
- [Note: genus misspelled as Bradyponera by Handlirsch, 1907: 879.]
- Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 32 (q.). Dlussky, 2009: 1068 (m.).
- Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 691; Dalla Torre, 1893: 18; André, 1895b: 82 (in list); Handlirsch, 1907: 879; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 32; Burnham, 1979: 109; Keilbach, 1982: 273; Bolton, 1995b: 82; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 2003: 935; Dlussky, 2009: 1066 (redescription); Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1031; Perkovsky, 2016: 115.
Description
References
- de Andrade, M. L; Baroni Urbani, C. 2003. The Baltic amber ant genus Bradoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with description of two new species and a reassessment of the Proceratiini genera. Rev. Suisse Zool. 110(4): 913-938 (page 935, described)
- Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss. 1: 1-102 (page 74, pl. 4, figs. 70, 71 worker described)
- Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii 50(2): 111–122 (doi:10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).
- Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 32, queen described)