Desyopone hereon

†Desyopone hereon 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
Species:	†D. hereon
Binomial name
†Desyopone hereon Boudinot & Perrichot, 2022

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.

• †hereon. †Desyopone hereon Boudinot & Perrichot, in Boudinot et al., 2022: 9, figs. 1-5 (m.) ETHIOPIAN AMBER (Ethiopia, Tertiary).

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).