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Pachycondyla gracilicornis
| †Pachycondyla gracilicornis Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Pachycondyla |
| Species: | †P. gracilicornis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Pachycondyla gracilicornis (Mayr, 1868) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Priabonian, Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †gracilicornis. †Ponera gracilicornis Mayr, 1868b: 72 (footnote) (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
- Incertae sedis in Ponera: Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 40;
- incertae sedis in Ponerinae: Taylor, 1964: 139;
- combination in Pachycondyla: Bolton, 1995b: 305;
- incertae sedis in Pachycondyla: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 156.
- Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 726; Dalla Torre, 1893: 39; Handlirsch, 1907: 879; Taylor, 1964: 139; Burnham, 1979: 109; Keilbach, 1982: 273; Bolton, 1995b: 305; Dlussky, 2009: 1054 (redescription); Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1031; Perkovsky, 2016: 115.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 305, Combination in Pachycondyla)
- Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss. 1: 1-102 (page 72, (footnote) worker described)
- Taylor, R. W. 1964. Taxonomy and parataxonomy of some fossil ants (Hymenoptera-Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 71: 134-141 (page 139, Incertae sedis in Ponerinae)
- Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 40, Incertae sedis in Ponera)