Archimyrmex wedmannae
†Archimyrmex wedmannae Temporal range: Lutetian, Middle Eocene Messel, Germany | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmeciinae |
Genus: | Archimyrmex |
Species: | †A. wedmannae |
Binomial name | |
†Archimyrmex wedmannae Dlussky, 2012 |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Messel, Germany (Lutetian, Middle Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †wedmannae. †Archimyrmex wedmannae Dlussky, 2012: 289, fig. 1 (q.) GERMANY (Messel, Eocene).
Description
References
- Dlussky, G.M. 2012. New fossil ants of the subfamily Myrmeciinae from Germany. Paleontological Journal 46: 288-292. [Original Russian text in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 2012 (3)*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).
- 65-69.]
- 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).