Kyromyrma

†Kyromyrma 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:	Formicinae
Genus:	†Kyromyrma Grimaldi & Agosti, 2000
Type species
Kyromyrma neffi
Diversity
1 fossil species (Species Checklist)

Distribution

This taxon is known from Raritan (New Jersey) amber, New Jersey, United States (Turonian, Late Cretaceous).

Nomenclature

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

• †KYROMYRMA [incertae sedis in Formicinae]
  • †Kyromyrma Grimaldi & Agosti, 2000: 13681. Type-species: †Kyromyrma neffi, by original designation.

Taxonomic history

• †Kyromyrma incertae sedis in Formicinae: Grimaldi & Agosti, 2000: 13681; Bolton, 2003: 28.
• †Kyromyrma as stem-taxon to Formicinae: Borysenko, 2017: 19.

Taxonomic Notes

Placed within the Formicinae but unplaced to tribe by Ward et al. (2016).

References

• Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
• Barden, P., Engel, M.S. 2020. Fossil social insects. Encyclopedia of Social Insects, Springer, Cham (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_45-1).
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 131, Kyromyrma incertae sedis in Formicinae)
• 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., Borowiec, M.L., Prebus, M.M. 2022. Phylogeny, evolution, and classification of the ant genus Lasius, the tribe Lasiini and the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 47, 113-151 (doi:10.1111/syen.12522).
• 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).
• Cantone, S., Von Zuben, C.J. 2019. The hindwings of ants: A phylogenetic analysis. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 2019, 1–11 (doi:10.1155/2019/7929717).
• Grimaldi, D.; Agosti, D. 2000b. A formicine in New Jersey Cretaceous amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and early evolution of the ants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 97: 13: 13678-136 (page 13681, Kyromyrma incertae sedis in Formicinae)
• Ward, P.S., Blaimer, B.B., Fisher, B.L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072 (3): 343–357 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.4).