Macabeemyrma

†Macabeemyrma Temporal range: Ypresian, Early Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl McAbee, British Columbia, Canada
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmeciinae (incertae sedis)
Genus:	†Macabeemyrma Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006
Type species
Macabeemyrma ovata
Diversity
1 fossil species (Species Checklist)

Distribution

This taxon is known from McAbee, British Columbia, Canada (Ypresian, Early Eocene).

Phylogeny

Myrmeciinae	†Archimyrmex  (4 species) Myrmeciini Myrmecia  (93 species, 0 fossil species) Prionomyrmecini †Prionomyrmex  (4 species) †Avitomyrmex  (3 species) †Macabeemyrma  (1 species) Nothomyrmecia  (1 species, 0 fossil species) †Ypresiomyrma  (4 species)

See Phylogeny of Myrmeciinae for details.

Nomenclature

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

• †MACABEEMYRMA [incertae sedis in Myrmeciinae]
  • †Macabeemyrma Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006: 498. Type-species: †Macabeemyrma ovata, by original designation.

References

• Archibald, S.B., Cover, S.P. & Moreau, C.S. 2006. Bulldog ants of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands and history of the subfamily. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99: 486-523.
• Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.