Desyopone
†Desyopone Temporal range: Early Miocene Ethiopian amber, Ethiopia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
Tribe: | Ponerini |
Genus: | †Desyopone Boudinot & Perrichot, 2022 |
Type species | |
Desyopone hereon | |
Diversity | |
1 fossil species (Species Checklist) |
There is only a single species in this genus found in Ethiopian amber.
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Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Ethiopian amber (Early Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †DESYOPONE [Ponerinae: Ponerini]
- †Desyopone Boudinot & Perrichot, in Bouodinot et al., 2022: 8. Type-species: †Desyopone hereon, by original designation.
References
- Boudinot, B.E., Richter, A.K., Hammel, J.U., Szwedo, J., Bojarski, B., Perrichot, V. 2022. Genomic-phenomic reciprocal illumination: Desyopone hereon gen. et sp. nov., an exceptional Aneuretine-like fossil ant from Ethiopian amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Insects 13(9), 796 (doi:10.3390/insects13090796).