Pachycondyla globiventris
†Pachycondyla globiventris Temporal range: Chattian stage, Late Oligocene Aix-en-Provence, France | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
Tribe: | Ponerini |
Genus: | Pachycondyla |
Species: | †P. globiventris |
Binomial name | |
†Pachycondyla globiventris (Théobald, 1937) |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Aix-en-Provence, France (Late Oligocene) and is also known from Kleinkems, Germany (Early Oligocene) and Brunstatt, Haut-Rhin, France (Early Oligocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †globiventris. †Euponera globiventris Théobald, 1937b: 198, pl. 13, fig. 16 (q.) GERMANY (Oligocene).
- Combination in Pachycondyla: Bolton, 1995b: 305;
- incertae sedis in Pachycondyla: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 156.
- Status as species: Burnham, 1979: 109; Bolton, 1995b: 305.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 305, Combination in Pachycondyla)
- Theobald, N. 1937a. Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France. Nancy: G. Thomas, 473 pp. (page 198, pl. 13, fig. 16 queen described)