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Myrmecites
| †Myrmecites Temporal range: 48–16 Ma Lutetian, Middle Eocene to Burdigalian, Early Miocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Genus: | †Myrmecites Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002 |
| Type species | |
| Myrmecites rotundiceps | |
| Diversity | |
| 6 fossil species (Species Checklist) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Bolshaya Svetlovodnaya, Sikhote-Alin, Russia (Priabonian, Late Eocene); Green River Formation, Colorado, United States (Lutetian, Middle Eocene) and Radoboj, Croatia (Burdigalian, Early Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †MYRMECITES [incertae sedis in Myrmicinae]
- †Myrmecites Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002: 422. Type-species: †Myrmecites rotundiceps, 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 422, Myrmecites as genus)