Protopone primigena

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Protopone primigena
Temporal range: Thanetian, Paleocene Sakhalin amber, Ukraine
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Genus: Protopone
Species: P. primigena
Binomial name
Protopone primigena
Dlussky, 1988

Identification

Distribution

This taxon was described from Sakhalin amber, Ukraine (Thanetian, Paleocene).

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • primigena. †Protopone primigena Dlussky, 1988: 53, fig. 2 (w.) RUSSIA (Palaeocene).

Description

References

  • Dlussky, G. M. 1988a. Ants of Sakhalin amber (Paleocene?) Paleontol. Zh. 1988(1 1: 50-61 (page 53, fig. 2 worker described)