Pachycondyla succinea
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Pachycondyla succinea is an extinct species of ant in the formicid subfamily Ponerinae described from fossils found in Europe. P. petrosa is one of three middle Eocene Pachycondyla species found in Ba
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Neotype queen
Closeup of male head
Ponera
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Ponera is a genus of ponerine ants. The name is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek ponēra.
Pachycondyla succinea
…The species was first described in 1868 by Austrian entomologist Gustav Mayr based on three queens. He named the species and placed it into the genus Ponera as Ponera succinea. The species was redescribed in 1915 by William Morton Wheeler based on a group of 21 queens, including one of Mayrs three original…
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Illustration of Ponera leptocephala in Sicilian amber