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Prionomyrmex wappleri
| †Prionomyrmex wappleri Temporal range: Late Oligocene Rott, Westphalia, Germany | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmeciinae |
| Tribe: | Prionomyrmecini |
| Genus: | Prionomyrmex |
| Species: | †P. wappleri |
| Binomial name | |
| †Prionomyrmex wappleri Dlussky, 2012 | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Rott, Westphalia, Germany (Late Oligocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †wappleri. †Prionomyrmex wappleri Dlussky, 2012: 291, fig. 2 (w.) GERMANY (Oligocene).
Description
References
- Dlussky, G.M. 2012. New fossil ants of the subfamily Myrmeciinae from Germany. Paleontological Journal 46: 288-292. (Original Russian text in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 2012 (3): 65-69.)
- Jouault, C., Nel, A. 2021. The oldest Cenozoic ant fossil: †Tyrannomecia gen. nov. (Formicidae: Myrmeciinae) from the Palaeocene Menat Formation (France). Historical Biology, 1–8 (doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.2010192).
- Mera-Rodríguez, D., Jourdan, H., Ward, P.S., Shattuck, S., Cover, S.P., Wilson, E.O., Rabeling, C. 2023. Biogeography and evolution of social parasitism in Australian Myrmecia bulldog ants revealed by phylogenomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 186, 107825 (doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107825).
- Radchenko, A.G., Perkovsky, E.E. 2020. New finds of the fossil ant genus Prionomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmeciinae) in Late Eocene European amber. Paleontological Journal 54, 617–626 (doi:10.1134/s0031030120060088).