Pachycondyla baltica

†Pachycondyla baltica Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Pachycondyla
Species:	†P. baltica
Binomial name
†Pachycondyla baltica Dlussky, 2002

Distribution

This taxon was described from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene).

Nomenclature

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

• †baltica. †Pachycondyla baltica Dlussky, 2002: 297, fig. 23 (m.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
  • Incertae sedis in Pachycondyla: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 155.
  • Status as species: Dlussky, 2009: 1055 (redescription); Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1031; Perkovsky, 2016: 115.

References

• Dlussky, G. M. 2002b. Syntypes of Baltic amber ants Formica flori Mayr and Ponera atavia Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Russ. Entomol. J. 11: 291-298.

• Dlussky, G.M. 2009. The ant subfamilies Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae and Pseudomyrmecinae in the Late Eocene ambers of Europe. Paleontological Journal 43: 1043- 1086.