Taphopone petrosa

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Taphopone petrosa
Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene
Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Genus: Taphopone
Species: T. petrosa
Binomial name
Taphopone petrosa
Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014

Identification

Distribution

This taxon was described from Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK (Priabonian, Late Eocene).

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • petrosa. †Taphopone petrosa Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 97, pl. 22, fig. 6, text-fig. 84 (q.) GREAT BRITAIN (Oligocene).

Description

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