Odontoponera pseudotransversa

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Odontoponera pseudotransversa
Temporal range: Miocene Zhangpu amber, Zhangpu County, Fujian Province, China
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Alliance: Odontomachus genus group
Genus: Odontoponera
Species: O. pseudotransversa
Binomial name
Odontoponera pseudotransversa
Perrichot, 2022

Identification

Distribution

This taxon was described from Zhangpu amber, Zhangpu County, Fujian Province, China (Miocene).

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • pseudotransversa. †Odontoponera pseudotransversa Perrichot, 2022: 4, figs. 1-3 (w.) CHINA (Fujian, Zhangpu amber, Miocene).

Description

References

  • Perrichot, V. 2022. The first fossil occurrence of Odontoponera (Formicidae: Ponerinae), from Middle Miocene Zhangpu amber. Palaeoworld 31: 10 pp. (doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2022.09.007).