Ponerites umbra

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Ponerites umbra
Temporal range: Miocene Kuban Province, Caucasus, Russia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Genus: Ponerites
Species: P. umbra
Binomial name
Ponerites umbra
(Popov, 1933)

Identification

Distribution

This taxon was described from Kuban Province, Caucasus, Russia (Miocene).

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • umbra. †Ponera umbra Popov, 1933: 17, fig. 1 (q.) CAUCASUS (Miocene).
    • Combination in †Ponerites: Dlussky, 1981b: 67.
    • Status as species: Taylor, 1964: 139; Burnham, 1979: 116; Dlussky, 1981b: 67; Bolton, 1995b: 363.

Description

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