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Gerontoformica occidentalis
| †Gerontoformica occidentalis Temporal range: Late Albian to Early Cenomanian, Cretaceous Charentese amber, Aquitaine Basin, France | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Sphecomyrminae |
| Tribe: | Sphecomyrmini |
| Genus: | Gerontoformica |
| Species group: | cretacica |
| Species: | †G. occidentalis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Gerontoformica occidentalis (Perrichot, Nel, Néraudeau, Lacau & Guyot, 2008) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Charentese amber, Aquitaine Basin, France (Late Albian to Early Cenomanian, Cretaceous).
Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †occidentalis. †Sphecomyrmodes occidentalis Perrichot, et al. 2008: 95, figs. 3, 4 (w.) CHARENTESE AMBER (France, Cretaceous).
- Combination in †Gerontoformica: Barden & Grimaldi, 2016: in supplemental information (not paginated).
- Status as species: Barden, 2017: 3; Boudinot, Richter, Katzke, et al. 2022: 27 (in key).
Description
References
- Barden, P. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2016. Adaptive radiation in socially advanced stem-group ants from the Cretaceous. Current Biology 26: 515-521 (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.12.060).
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Boudinot, B.E., Perrichot, V., Chaul, J.C.M. 2020. †Camelosphecia gen. nov., lost ant-wasp intermediates from the mid-Cretaceous (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea). ZooKeys 1005, 21–55 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1005.57629).
- Boudinot, B.E., Richter, A., Katzke, J., Chaul, J.C.M., Keller, R.A., Economo, E.P., Beutel, R.G., Yamamoto, S. 2022. Evidence for the evolution of eusociality in stem ants and a systematic revision of †Gerontoformica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society XX:1-35 (doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab097/6523228).
- Perrichot, V., Nel, A., Néraudeau, D., Lacau, S. & Guyot, T. 2008. New fossil ants in French Cretaceous amber. Naturwissenschaften 95: 91-97 (doi:10.1007/s00114-007-0302-7).