Tetraponera europaea
†Tetraponera europaea Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene Rovno amber, Ukraine | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Pseudomyrmecinae |
Genus: | Tetraponera |
Species: | †T. europaea |
Binomial name | |
†Tetraponera europaea Dlussky, 2009 |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Rovno amber (Priabonian, Late Eocene) and is also known from Bitterfeld amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †europaea. †Tetraponera europaea Dlussky, 2009: 1081, figs. 12h-m (w.q.) ROVNO AMBER (Eocene).