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Species: †Bradoponera meieri   Mayr, 1868 


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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

†Bradoponera meieri Mayr, 1868c PDF: 74, pl. 4, figs. 70, 71 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Wheeler, 1915i PDF: 32 (q.).
Dlussky, 2009 PDF: 1068 (m.).
See also: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 2003: 935.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)
Palearctic Region: Eastern Europe, Europe, Kaliningrad, Russia

Distribution Notes:

Baltic, Rovno, and Saxonian amber; middle Eocene to Late Oligocene (23-42 Ma).

Comments:

Only one on five type specimens retrieved in Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria (NHMW), and designated as lectotype NHMW 1984/31/356 (w.); other material available in: Museum Ziemi PAN, Warsaw, Poland (MZ PAN-10360, -14764, -15444 ); Natural History Museum London, England (BMNH-P.In.17965, In.18809, BMNH-PI.II.1100); Geowissenschaftlicher Zentrum Georg-August Universitat Gottingen, Germany (GZG.BST-03956, -27101); Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin, Germany (HM 11/296); Senckenberg Museum und Forschungsinstitut, Frankfurt, Germany; Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kiev, Ukraine (SIZK-K-3569, -4248).

References:

  • Mayr G. L. 1868. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitrage zur Naturkunde Preussens, 1: 1-102.
  • Wheeler W. M. 1915. The ants of the Baltic amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg, 55: 1-142.
  • De Andrade M. L. & Baroni Urbani C. 2003. The Baltic amber ant genus Bradoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with description of two new species and a reassessment of the Proceratiini genera. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 110(4): 913-938.
  • Dlussky G. M. 2009. The ant subfamilies Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae, and Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Late Eocene ambers of Europe. Paleontological Journal, 43(9): 1043-1086.

Specimen Habitat Summary

Type specimens: syntype: nhmw1984-31-256



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