Desyopone

†Desyopone Temporal range: Early Miocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Ethiopian amber, Ethiopia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	†Desyopone Boudinot & Perrichot, 2022
Type species
Desyopone hereon
Diversity
1 fossil species (Species Checklist)

There is only a single species in this genus found in Ethiopian amber.

Photo Gallery

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  Desyopone hereon (prepared by Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Jörg Hammel & Jonas Lauströer)

Distribution

This taxon was described from Ethiopian amber (Early Miocene).

Nomenclature

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

• †DESYOPONE [Ponerinae: Ponerini]
  • †Desyopone Boudinot & Perrichot, in Bouodinot et al., 2022: 8. Type-species: †Desyopone hereon, by original designation.

References

• Boudinot, B.E., Richter, A.K., Hammel, J.U., Szwedo, J., Bojarski, B., Perrichot, V. 2022. Genomic-phenomic reciprocal illumination: Desyopone hereon gen. et sp. nov., an exceptional Aneuretine-like fossil ant from Ethiopian amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Insects 13(9), 796 (doi:10.3390/insects13090796).