Procerapachys
†Procerapachys Temporal range: Middle to Late Eocene,
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Genus: | †Procerapachys Wheeler, 1915
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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[]
- ^ 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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- Dorylinae
- Fossil ant genera
- Eocene insects
- Fossil taxa described in 1915
- Fossil taxa described in 2009
- Hymenoptera of Europe
- Eocene genus first appearances
- Prehistoric insects of Europe