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Pachycondyla succinea
| †Pachycondyla succinea Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Pachycondyla |
| Species: | †P. succinea |
| Binomial name | |
| †Pachycondyla succinea (Mayr, 1868) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and is also known from Bitterfeld amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene), Danish-Scandinavian amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and Rovno amber (Priabonian, Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †succinea. †Ponera succinea Mayr, 1868b: 72 (q.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
- Dlussky, 2009: 1053 (m.).
- Combination in Euponera (Trachymesopus): Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 37;
- combination in Pachycondyla: Bolton, 1995b: 310;
- incertae sedis in Pachycondyla: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 156.
- Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 726; André, 1895b: 82 (in list); Handlirsch, 1907: 879; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 37; Taylor, 1964: 139; Burnham, 1979: 109; Keilbach, 1982: 273; Bolton, 1995b: 310; Dlussky, 2009: 1051 (redescription); Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1031; Perkovsky, 2016: 115.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 310, Combination in Pachycondyla)
- Dlussky, G.M. 2009. The ant subfamilies Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae and Pseudomyrmecinae in the Late Eocene ambers of Europe. Paleontological Journal 43: 1043- 1086.
- Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss. 1: 1-102 (page 72, queen described)
- Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii 50(2): 111–122 (doi:10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).
- Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 37, Combination in Euponera (Trachymesopus))