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Proceratiini

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Proceratini was named by Emery (1885). It is extant. Its type is Proceratium.

It was corrected as Proceratiini by Bolton (2003) and Bolton (2012).

It was assigned to Ponerinae by Wheeler (1915); and to Proceratiinae by Bolton (2003) and Bolton (2012).

Subtaxa
Bradoponera, Discothyrea, Proceratium (type genus)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1885Proceratini Emery
1915Proceratini Wheeler
2003Proceratiini Bolton p. 49
2012Proceratiini Bolton

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
subfamilyProceratiinaeEmery 1895
tribeProceratiini(Emery 1885)
tribeProceratiini(Emery 1885)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Tr. Proceratiini Emery 1885
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G. †Bradoponera Mayr 1868
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†Bradoponera electrina Baroni Urbani 2003
†Bradoponera meieri Mayr 1868
†Bradoponera similis Dlussky 2009
†Bradoponera wunderlichi Baroni Urbani and de Andrade 2003
G. Discothyrea Roger 1863
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†Discothyrea gigas de Andrade 1998
†Discothyrea maya de Andrade 1998
G. Proceratium Roger 1863
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†Proceratium denticulatum Lattke 1991
†Proceratium dominicanum de Andrade 2003
†Proceratium eocenicum Dlussky 2009
†Proceratium gibberum de Andrade 2003
†Proceratium petrosum Dlussky et al. 2015
†Proceratium poinari Baroni Urbani and de Andrade 2003
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Holocene or 38.00000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (21 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Germany (Halle) Bradoponera meyeri (129228) Bradoponera meyeri, Bradoponera similis (129227)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Primorskiy) Proceratium petrosum (123794)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Bradoponera meieri (123927 138660) Bradoponera meyeri (123420 123766) Bradoponera meyeri, Proceratium eocenicum (110735) Bradoponera sp., Bradoponera wunderlichi, Bradoponera electrina (124318)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Bradoponera meieri (120811) Bradoponera meyeri, Proceratium eocenicum (120813)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Ukraine Bradoponera meyeri (122997)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Mexico (Chiapas) Proceratium poinari, Discothyrea maya (125757)
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Proceratium denticulatum (138941) Proceratium dominicanum (122474) Proceratium gibberum (138708) Proceratium poinari (124281) Proceratium poinari, Proceratium dominicanum (21978) Proceratium poinari, Proceratium dominicanum, Discothyrea gigas (122472)
Langhian15.97 - 13.82China (Fujian) Proceratium sp., Discothyrea sp. (220273)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Colombia (Boyacá) Proceratium sp. (215881)