Paraneuretus

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Paraneuretus
Temporal range: 42–33.9 Ma Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene and Priabonian, Late Eocene
Paraneuretus tornquisti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Aneuretinae
Tribe: Aneuretini
Genus: Paraneuretus
Wheeler, W.M., 1915
Type species
Paraneuretus tornquisti
Diversity
3 fossil species
(Species Checklist)

Identification

Distribution

This taxon is known from Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene), Bitterfeld amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and Bolshaya Svetlovodnaya, Sikhote-Alin, Russia (Priabonian, Late Eocene).

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • PARANEURETUS [Aneuretinae]
    • Paraneuretus Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 73. Type-species: †Paraneuretus tornquisti, by original designation.
    • [†Paraneuretus Wheeler, W.M. 1908g: 413, Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 148 and Emery, 1913a: 2; nomina nuda.]


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