Pachycondyla succinea is an extinct species of ant in the formicid subfamily Ponerinae described from fossils found in Europe.

[3][4] Baltic amber is approximately forty six million years old, having been deposited during Lutetian stage of the Middle Eocene.

[5][6] The paleoenvironment of the Eocene Baltic forests where the P. eocenicum lived was that of humid temperate to subtropical islands.

[5] Rovno amber, recovered from deposits in the Rivne region of Ukraine, is slightly younger in age, being dated to the Bartonian to Priabonian of the Late Eocene.

Bitterfeld represents a section of the Eocene Paratethys Sea, and the amber that is recovered from the region is thought to be redeposited from older sediments.

[9][1] The species was redescribed in 1915 by William Morton Wheeler based on a group of 21 queens, including one of Mayrs three original syntypes.

[10] Males of the species were first formally described in 2009, based on specimens preserved in Baltic and Bitterfeld ambers.

Many upright hairs are found on the gaster, petiole scale, upper surface of the mesosoma, and on the head.