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Tetraponera klebsi

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Sima klebsi was named by Wheeler (1915). Its type specimen is Klebs X 8, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Klebs collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Tetraponera klebsi by Dlussky (2009).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1915Sima klebsi Wheeler p. 41 fig. 10
1937Sima klebsi Theobald p. 199 figs. Pl XIII fig 19
1987Sima klebsi Spahr p. 61
2009Tetraponera klebsi Dlussky p. 1083 fig. 13b

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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()
subfamilyPseudomyrmecinaeSmith 1952
genusTetraponeraSmith 1852
speciesklebsi()

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.

Tetraponera klebsi Wheeler 1915
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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: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Rupelian or 38.00000 to 28.10000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Sima klebsi (type locality: 124073)
Rupelian33.9 - 28.1Germany Sima klebsi (122407)