Ponera wheeleri

†Ponera wheeleri Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Bitterfeld amber, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Ponera
Species:	†P. wheeleri
Binomial name
†Ponera wheeleri Dlussky, 2009

Distribution

This taxon was described from Bitterfeld amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Priabonian, Late Eocene)

Nomenclature

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

• †wheeleri. †Ponera wheeleri Dlussky, 2009: 1059, fig. 6g (m.) BITTERFELD AMBER (Eocene).

References

• [[Media:Dlussky 2009.pdf|Dlussky, G.M. 2009. The ant subfamilies Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae and Pseudomyrmecinae in the Late Eocene ambers of Europe. Paleontological Journal 43: 1043*Heterick, B.E. 2021. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part I: Systematics. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 86, 1-245 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245).
• Heterick, B.E. 2022. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part II: Distribution and biology. Records of the Western Australian Museum, supplement 86: 247-510 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2022.247-510).

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