Ponerites taurica
†Ponerites taurica Temporal range: Middle Miocene Malyi Kamyshlak, Kerch, Crimea, Russian Federation | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
Tribe: | Ponerini |
Genus: | Ponerites |
Species: | †P. taurica |
Binomial name | |
†Ponerites taurica (Dlussky, 1981) |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Malyi Kamyshlak, Kerch, Crimea, Russian Federation (Middle Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †taurica. †Dolichoderus tauricus Dlussky, 1981b: 70, fig. 52 (q.) RUSSIA (Miocene).
- Combination in †Ponerites: Perfilieva, et al. 2017: 393.
- Status as species: Shattuck, 1994: 69; Bolton, 1995b: 176; Perfilieva, et al. 2017: 393 (redescription).
Type Material
Holotype. Three-dimensional part and counterpart of a female; Crimea, Malyi Kamyshlak locality; Middle Miocene, Upper Tarkhanian (16.5-15.5 Ma bp) (Arthropod Laboratory of the A.A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, no. 287/343).
Description
References
- 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 70, fig. 52 queen described)
- Perfilieva, K.S., Dubovikoff, D.A. & Dlussky, G.M. 2017. Miocene ants from Crimea. Paleontological Journal 51 (4): 391-401. (Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 2017 (4): 54-64.)