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Species: †Hypoponera atavia   (Mayr, 1868) 


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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

†Ponera atavia Mayr, 1868c PDF: 72, pl. 4, figs. 66-69 (q.m.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Wheeler, 1915i PDF: 38 (w.).
Combination in Hypoponera: Dlussky, 2002B: 295.
See also: Taylor, 1967a PDF: 29; Dlussky, 2009 PDF: 1048.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)
Palearctic Region: Eastern Europe, Europe, Germany, Kaliningrad, Lower Saxony, Russia, Western Europe

Distribution Notes:

Baltic amber; middle to Late Eocene (34-42 Ma); Saxonian amber, Bitterfeld, Germany; Late Oligocene-Early Miocene (ca. 23 Ma).

Comments:

Holotype presumably lost; lectotype gyne NHMW 1984/31/254 in Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria; other material available in: Museum Ziemi PAN, Warsaw, Poland (MZ PAN-5821, -11492, -6953); Geowissenschaftlicher Zentrum der Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany (GZG.BST-27009, -27019, -27028, -27194); Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (ZMUC-307, -310, -311); Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin, Germany. One of Wheeler's specimens (a male) currently in MCZC (PALE-4511), belonging to the GZG collection.  

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 Koenigsberg, 55: 1-142.
  • Taylor R. W. 1967. A monographic revision of the ant genus Ponera Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monographs, 13: 1-112.
  • Dlussky G. M. 2002. Syntypes of Baltic amber ants Formica flori Mayr and Ponera atavia Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Russian Entomological Journal, 11(3): 291-2988.
  • 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: lectotype: nhmw1984-31-254



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