Procerapachys

Procerapachys
Temporal range: Middle to Late Eocene, 42–37 Ma
Procerapachys annosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Procerapachys
Wheeler, 1915
Type species
Procerapachys annosus
Species
  • P. annosus Wheeler, 1915
  • P. favosus Wheeler, 1915
  • P. sulcatus Dlussky, 2009

Procerapachys is an extinct genus of ants which existed 37 to 42 million years ago. A member of the subfamily Dorylinae of the family Formicidae, Procerapachys was first described by American entomologist William Morton Wheeler in 1915.[1]

References

  1. Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber" (PDF). Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 1–142. doi:10.5281/zenodo.25147.
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