Archimyrmex rostratus

†Archimyrmex rostratus Temporal range: Lutetian, Middle Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Green River Formation, Colorado, United States
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmeciinae
Genus:	Archimyrmex
Species:	†A. rostratus
Binomial name
†Archimyrmex rostratus Cockerell, 1923

Distribution

This taxon was described from Green River Formation, Colorado, United States (Lutetian, Middle Eocene).

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• †rostratus. †Archimyrmex rostratus Cockerell, 1923a: 52, figs. A, B (w.) U.S.A. (Colorado, Green River, Eocene).
  • Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002: 420 (q.).
  • Status as species: Carpenter, 1930: 16; Burnham, 1979: 108; Bolton, 1995b: 75; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002: 420 (redescription); Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2003: 40 (redescription).

References

• Cockerell, T. D. A. 1923a. The earliest known ponerine ant. Entomologist 56: 51-52 (page 52, figs. a, b worker described)
• Dlussky, G. M.; Perfilieva, K.S. 2003a. Paleogene ants of the genus Archimyrmex Cockerell, 1923 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmeciinae). Paleontol. Zh. 1: 40-49 (page 43, redescription)
• Dlussky, G. M.; Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2003 [2002]. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Formation Green River and some other Middle Eocene deposits of North America. Russ. Entomol. J. 11(4): 411-436 (see also)
• Jouault, C., Nel, A. 2021. The oldest Cenozoic ant fossil: †Tyrannomecia gen. nov. (Formicidae: Myrmeciinae) from the Palaeocene Menat Formation (France). Historical Biology, 1–8 (doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.2010192).
• Mera-Rodríguez, D., Jourdan, H., Ward, P.S., Shattuck, S., Cover, S.P., Wilson, E.O., Rabeling, C. 2023. Biogeography and evolution of social parasitism in Australian Myrmecia bulldog ants revealed by phylogenomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 186, 107825 (doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107825).