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Kohlsimyrma
| †Kohlsimyrma Temporal range: Lutetian, Middle Eocene Green River Formation, Colorado, United States | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae (incertae sedis) |
| Subfamily: | Uncertain |
| Genus: | †Kohlsimyrma Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002 |
| Type species | |
| Kohlsimyrma laticeps | |
| Diversity | |
| 3 fossil species (Species Checklist) | |
The taxonomomic placement of this genus is uncertain and it is currently considered incertae sedis in Formicidae.
Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Green River Formation, Colorado, United States (Lutetian, Middle Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †KOHLSIMYRMA [incertae sedis in Formicidae]
- †Kohlsimyrma Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002: 427. Type-species: †Kohlsimyrma laticeps, by original designation.
References
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Dlussky, G. M.; Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2003 [2002]. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Formation Green River and some other Middle Eocene deposits of North America. Russ. Entomol. J. 11(4): 411-436 (page 427, Kohlsimyrma as genus; incertae sedis in Formicidae)