Brownimeciinae

†Brownimeciinae Temporal range: Turonian, Late Cretaceous K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl ↓ Raritan (New Jersey) amber, New Jersey, United States
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Brownimeciinae Bolton, 2003
Diversity
1 fossil genera 2 fossil species

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Statistics

Extant Taxa

No living taxa are known from this subfamily.

Fossil Taxa

Fossil Genera	% World Fossil Genera	Valid Fossil Species/Subsp.	% World Fossil Species/Subsp.
1	0.6%	2	0.22%

Fossils known from: Raritan (New Jersey) amber, New Jersey, United States (Turonian, Late Cretaceous).

List of Tribes and Genera

Tribes

No tribes within subfamily.

Extant Genera

This subfamily is known only from fossils.

Fossil Genera

Brownimecia

Phylogeny

Formicoidea

Camelomecia clade (unplaced to family) Camelomecia Camelosphecia Formicidae               Stem Formicidae Unplaced to subfamily (Baikuris, Cretomyrma, Dlusskyidris) Clade Sphecomyrmines Haidomyrmecinae Sphecomyrminae Zigrasimeciinae Clade Antennoclypeata Brownimeciinae Crown Formicidae               Leptanillinae Martialinae Amblyoponinae - see relationships Apomyrminae Proceratiinae Ponerinae - see relationships Agroecomyrmecinae Paraponerinae Dorylinae - see relationships Aneuretinae Dolichoderinae - see relationships Myrmeciinae - see relationships Pseudomyrmecinae - see relationships Formicinae - see relationships Ectatomminae - see relationships Myrmicinae - see relationships

See Phylogeny of Formicidae for details.

Nomenclature

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

• BROWNIMECIINAE [subfamily of Formicidae]
  • †Brownimeciinae Bolton, 2003: 75, 262. Type-genus: †Brownimecia Grimaldi, et al. 1997: 20.

Taxonomic History

• †Brownimeciinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 2003: 75, 262; LaPolla, et al. 2013: 621 (in text).
• †Brownimeciinae as poneroid subfamily of Formicidae: Ward, 2007a: 555.

Taxonomic References

Bolton, 2003: 75, 262 (diagnosis, comments, synopsis).

References

• 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).