Pachycondyla tristis

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Pachycondyla tristis
Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Bitterfeld amber, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Genus: Pachycondyla
Species: P. tristis
Binomial name
Pachycondyla tristis
Dlussky, 2009

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Identification

Distribution

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

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • tristis. †Pachycondyla tristis Dlussky, 2009: 1056, figs. 5b,c (q.) BITTERFELD AMBER (Germany, Eocene).
    • Incertae sedis in Pachycondyla: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 156.
    • Status as species: Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1031; Perkovsky, 2016: 115.

Description

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