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Paraponera dieteri
| †Paraponera dieteri Temporal range: Burdigalian, Early Miocene Dominican amber, Dominican Republic | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Paraponerinae |
| Genus: | Paraponera |
| Species: | †P. dieteri |
| Binomial name | |
| †Paraponera dieteri Baroni Urbani, 1994 | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Dominican amber, Dominican Republic (Burdigalian, Early Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †dieteri. †Paraponera dieteri Baroni Urbani, 1994: 5, figs. 1, 2 (w.) DOMINICAN AMBER (Dominican Republic, Miocene).
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 312.
- [Note: Wilson, 1986a: 197 describes, but does not name, a Paraponera fossil from the Dominican amber.]
Holotype: Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde Stuttgart, no. DO-4112.
Description
References
- Baroni Urbani, C. 1994a. The identity of the Dominican Paraponera (Amber Collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. V: Ponerinae, partim). Stuttg. Beitr. Naturkd. Ser. B (Geol. Paläontol.) 197: 1-9. (page 5, figs. 1, 2 worker d*Borowiec, M.L., Moreau, C.S., Rabeling, C. 2020. Ants: Phylogeny and Classification. In: C. Starr (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Insects (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_155-1).
- Delsinne, T., Sonet, G., Arias-Penna, T.M. 2019. Capitulo 21. Subfamilia Paraponerinae. Hormigas de Colombia.
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- Fiorentino, G., Lattke, J., Troya, A., Sosiak, C., Dong, M., Barden, P. 2023. Deep time extinction of largest insular ant predators and the first fossil Neoponera (Formicidae: Ponerinae) from Miocene age Dominican amber. BMC Biology, 21: 26 (doi:10.1186/s12915-022-01488-9).
- Richter, A., Boudinot, B.E., Hita Garcia, F., Billen, J., Economo, E.P., Beutel, R.G. 2023. Wonderfully weird: the head anatomy of the armadillo ant, Tatuidris tatusia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Agroecomyrmecinae), with evolutionary implications. Myrmecological News 33: 35-75 (doi:10.25849/MYRMECOL.NEWS_033:035).