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Species: †Procerapachys annosus   Wheeler, 1915 


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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

†Procerapachys annosus Wheeler, 1915i PDF: 28, fig. 2 (w.m.) BALTIC AMBER. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Combination in Cerapachys: Brown, 1975 PDF: 22; in †Procerapachys: Dlussky, 2009 PDF: 1073.

Distribution:

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

Distribution Notes:

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

Comments:

One type specimen (K5793, worker) currently in MCZC (PALE-4508), belonging to Klebs collection of the GZG, Universität Göttingen, Germany; hence, unnecessary designation of a neotype (HM 7/225, "provisional number", in Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin, Germany) by Dlussky, 2009; other specimens in MfN Berlin, in GZG (GZG.BST.27103), and in Forschungsinstitut und Museum Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (SMF-Be805).

References:

  • Wheeler W. M. 1915. The ants of the Baltic amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg, 55: 1-142.
  • Brown W. L. Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search: Agriculture (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York), 5(1): 1-115.
  • Bolton B. 1995. A new general catalogue of the ants of the World. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 504 pp.
  • Dlussky G. M. 1997. Genera of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Baltic amber. Paleontological Journal, 31(6): 616-627.
  • 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.


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