page_title: Bradoponera
section_title: B. wunderlichi
hierarchical_section_title: Bradoponera / Description / B. wunderlichi
caption_attribution_description: English: Profile view of the Bradoponera wunderlichi" holotype worker. Specimen SMFBE524; Senckenberg Museum, Germany Baltic Amber, Middle Eocene; Samland Peninsula?, Baltic Region, Europe.
context_page_description: Bradoponera is an extinct genus of ant in the Formicidae subfamily Proceratiinae, and is one of four genera of the subfamily. The genus contains four described species Bradoponera electrina, Bradoponera meieri, Bradoponera similis, and Bradoponera wunderlichi. The species are known from several Middle Eocene amber fossils which were found in Europe.
context_section_description: The species was described from a single wingless female that is approximately 2.53 mm (0.100 in) long.  The female has antennae possessing 9 segments, three less than seen in B. meieri queens.  The antennae have thick scapes that reach just past the rear margins of the eyes.  The basal two antenna segments after the scape are both roughly square in outline, while the next five segments are shorter than wide with a rectangular outline.  The mandibles have an overall triangular outline, with a convex curvature to the outside edges and smooth, toothless chewing edges.  The dark brownish-black body is covered in fine setae that lay against the exoskeleton. Unlike B. electrina the robust mesosoma is approximately the same length as the head including mandibles.  The petiole is short and wide, the width being about double the length in profile, and the frond and rear sides narrow slightly towards the base giving a wedge like outline.
  The species epithet "wunderlichi" was chosen by Baroni Urbani as an epithet honoring Jörg Wunderlich, who supplied several of the fossils for examination.
caption: B. wunderlichi holotype worker showing gasteral curve
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