Cyrtopone

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Cyrtopone
Temporal range: Lutetian, Middle Eocene
Messel, Germany
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Genus: Cyrtopone
Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
Type species
Cyrtopone microcephala
Diversity
4 fossil species
(Species Checklist)

Identification

Distribution

This taxon is known from Messel, Germany (Lutetian, Middle Eocene).

Castes

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • CYRTOPONE [Ponerinae]
    • Cyrtopone Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012: 742. Type-species: †Cyrtopone microcephala, by original designation.

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