†Poneropterus
Dlussky, 1983
incertae sedis in family, valid
masculine
- †Poneropterus in Armaniidae: Dlussky, 1983: 67; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77; Grimaldi et al., 1997: 7.
- †Poneropterus in †Sphecomyrminae: Wilson, 1987b: 49.
- †Poneropterus in †Armaniinae: Bolton, 1994: 187; Bolton, 2003: 260.
- †Poneropterus incertae sedis in Formicidae: Borysenko, 2017: 14
- †Poneropterus as junior synonym of †Sphecomyrma: Wilson, 1987b: 49; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 9.
- †Poneropterus as genus: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77; Carpenter, 1992: 494; Grimaldi et al., 1997: 7; all subsequent authors.
Genus †Poneropterus references
Bolton, 1995b: 363 (catalogue); Grimaldi et al., 1997: 5 (notes).
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
- Borysenko, L. H. 2017. Description of a new genus of primitive ants from Canadian amber, with the study of relationships between stem- and crown-group ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insecta Mundi 570:1-57. PDF
- Carpenter, F. M. 1992. Treatise on invertebrate paleontology. Part R. Arthropoda 4. Volume 4. Superclass Hexapoda. Boulder: Geological Society of America, pp. i-ii, 279-655.
- Dlussky, G. M. 1983. A new family of Upper Cretaceous Hymenoptera: an "intermediate link" between the ants and the scolioids. [In Russian.]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1983(3):65-78. PDF
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. [In Russian.]. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) 1988. Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp.
- Grimaldi, D.; Agosti, D.; Carpenter, J. M. 1997. New and rediscovered primitive ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey, and their phylogenetic relationships. American Museum Novitates 3208:1-43. PDF
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
- Wilson, E. O. 1987b. The earliest known ants: an analysis of the Cretaceous species and an inference concerning their social organization. Paleobiology 13:44-53. PDF
Fossil: 1 valid species
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