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Myrmeciites
| †Myrmeciites Temporal range: 55–48 Ma Ypresian, Early Eocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmeciinae (incertae sedis) |
| Genus: | †Myrmeciites Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006 |
| Type species | |
| Not required | |
| Diversity | |
| 3 fossil species (Species Checklist) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Horsefly River, British Columbia, Canada (Ypresian, Early Eocene) and McAbee, British Columbia, Canada (Ypresian, Early Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †MYRMECIITES [incertae sedis in Myrmeciinae: collective group name]
- †Myrmeciites Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006: 500. [Collective group name.]
References
- Archibald, S.B., Cover, S.P. & Moreau, C.S. 2006. Bulldog ants of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands and history of the subfamily. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99: 486-523.
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.