Procerapachys
| Procerapachys Temporal range: Middle to Late Eocene, | |
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| Procerapachys annosus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | †Procerapachys Wheeler, 1915 |
| Type species | |
| Procerapachys annosus | |
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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
[edit]- ↑ 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.