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Procerapachys

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Genus of ants

Procerapachys
Temporal range: Middle to Late Eocene, 42–37 Ma PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Procerapachys annosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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.

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.
Taxon identifiers
Procerapachys
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