Tetraponera klebsi

†Tetraponera klebsi 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:	Pseudomyrmecinae
Genus:	Tetraponera
Species:	†T. klebsi
Binomial name
†Tetraponera klebsi (Wheeler, W.M., 1915)

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.

• †klebsi. †Sima klebsi Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 41, fig. 10 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). Combination in Tetraponera: Ward, 1990: 489. See also: Dlussky, 2009: 1083.

References

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

• Ward, P. S. 1990. The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): generic revision and relationship to other formicids. Syst. Entomol. 15: 449-489 (page 641, Combination in Tetraponera)

• Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 41, fig. 10 worker described)