Paraneuretus Wheeler, 1915

Dlussky, G. M., Rasnitsyn, A. P. & Perfilieva, K. S., 2015, The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol’shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East), Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (1), pp. 131-152 : 133

Genus Paraneuretus Wheeler, 1915

Type species Paraneuretus tornquisti Wheeler, 1915 , by original designation.

Diagnosis (for fossil imprints). Worker. Waist consisting of 1 segment (petiole); gaster without constriction between 1st and 2nd gastral (abdominal III and IV) segments. Petiole with node and long peduncle. Head longer than wide. Eyes situated nearly at the middle of head sides. Mandibles long, narrow, triangular, bent downwards at their tips, with straight external and finely denticulate apical borders. Antennae 12-segmented, long and slender; funiculi not enlarged towards their tips, all the joints much longer than broad. Propodeum without teeth or denticles, rounded in side view. Legs long and slender, all the tibiae with distinctly pectinated spurs. Sting long and well-developed. Gyne. Head subrectangular with rounded occipital corners. Antennae geniculate, 12-segmented, with long scape. Scape attached at some distance from clypeus. Mandibles large, triangular, with sharp teeth on the masticatory margin. Petiole elongate, without scale, or nodiform (only at females). Forewing with usual pterostigma and closed cells 1+2r, 3r, rm, mcu. Cell rm quadriangular. Cell3r long, about one third of wing length.

Species included. Paraneuretus tornquisti Wheeler, 1915 and P.longicornis Wheeler, 1915 ; Baltic amber, Late Eocene [ Wheeler, 1915].