Ponerites

†Ponerites; Temporal range: 48–5 Ma K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Lutetian, Middle Eocene to Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	†Ponerites; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002
Type species
	Ponerites eocenicus;
Diversity
	15 fossil species; (Species Checklist)

Identification

Distribution

This taxon is known from Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK (Priabonian, Late Eocene); Green River Formation, Colorado, United States (Lutetian, Middle Eocene); Kishenehn Formation shale, Montana, United States (Lutetian, Middle Eocene); Kuban Province, Caucasus, Russia (Miocene); Malyi Kamyshlak, Kerch, Crimea, Russian Federation (Middle Miocene) and Radoboj, Croatia (Burdigalian, Early Miocene).

Castes

Nomenclature

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

†PONERITES [Ponerinae: Ponerini]
- †Ponerites Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002: 423. Type-species: †Ponerites eocenicus, by original designation.
- [†Ponerites originally as collective group name in Ponerinae: Dlussky, 1981: 67.]

References

Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 363, Ponerites in Ponerinae)
Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 172, Ponerites in Ponerinae)
Dlussky, G. M. 1981a. Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR. Pp. 64-83 in: Vishnyakova, V. N., Dlussky, G. M., Pritykina, L. N. New fossil insects from the territories of the USSR. Tr. Paleontol. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 183:1-87. (page 67, Ponerites (collective group name))
Dlussky, G. M.; Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2003 [2002]. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Formation Green River and some other Middle Eocene deposits of North America. Russ. Entomol. J. 11(4): 411-436 (page 423, Ponerites as genus; Type-species Ponerites eocenicus; by subsequent designation)
Dlussky, G.M. & Perfilieva, K.S. 2014. Superfamily Formicoidea Latreille, 1802. In: Antropov, A. V., Belokobylskij, S. A., Compton, S. G., Dlussky, G. M., Khalaim, A. I., Kolyada, V. A., Kozlov, M. A., Perfilieva, K. S. & Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2014. The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 104(3-4):335-446.