Taphopone stauropolitana

†Taphopone stauropolitana Temporal range: Middle Miocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Vishnevaya Balka Creek, Stavropol, Russian Federation
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Genus:	Taphopone
Species:	†T. stauropolitana
Binomial name
†Taphopone stauropolitana (Dlussky, 1981)

Distribution

This taxon was described from Vishnevaya Balka Creek, Stavropol, Russian Federation (Middle Miocene).

Nomenclature

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

• †stauropolitana. †Ponerites stauropolitanus Dlussky, 1981b: 67, fig. 50 (wing) RUSSIA (Miocene).
  • Combination in †Taphopone: Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 430.
  • Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 363; Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 430.

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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 67, fig. 50 wing described)
• 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.