Boltonimecia canadensis
†Boltonimecia canadensis Temporal range: Campanian, Late Cretaceous Foremost Formation amber, Alberta, Canada | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Zigrasimeciinae |
Genus: | Boltonimecia |
Species: | †B. canadensis |
Binomial name | |
†Boltonimecia canadensis (Wilson, 1985) |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Foremost Formation amber, Alberta, Canada (Campanian, Late Cretaceous).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †canadensis. †Sphecomyrma canadensis Wilson, 1985d: 206, figs. 1, 2 (w.) MEDICINE HAT AMBER (Canada: Alberta, Cretaceous).
- Combination in *Boltonimecia: Borysenko, 2017: 4.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 392; Grimaldi, Agosti & Carpenter, 1997: 6; Engel & Grimaldi, 2005: 7 (in key); Barden, 2017: 2; Borysenko, 2017: 4 (redescription).
Description
References
- Borysenko, L.H. 2017. Description of a new genus of primitive ants from Canadian amber, with the study of relationships between stem- and crown-group ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insecta Mundi 570: 1–57.
- 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).
- Chaul, J.C.M. 2023. A revision of the Cretaceous ant genus Zigrasimecia Barden & Grimaldi, 2013 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: †Zigrasimeciinae). Zootaxa 5325(3), 301–341 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5325.3.1).
- Wilson, E. O. 1985f. Ants from the Cretaceous and Eocene amber of North America. Psyche (Camb.) 92: 205-216 (page 206, worker described)