Pseudarmania

†Pseudarmania Temporal range: Early/Lower Campanian, Cretaceous K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Ola Formation, Tenkinskii, Russian Federation
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Sphecomyrminae
Tribe:	Sphecomyrmini
Genus:	†Pseudarmania Dlussky, 1983
Type species
Pseudarmania rasnitsyni
Diversity
2 fossil species

Distribution

This taxon is known from Ola Formation, Tenkinskii, Russian Federation (Early/Lower Campanian, Cretaceous).

Nomenclature

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

• †PSEUDARMANIA [†Sphecomyrminae: †Sphecomyrmini]
  • †Pseudarmania Dlussky, 1983: 69. Type-species: †Pseudarmania rasnitsyni, by original designation.

Taxonomic history

• †Pseudarmania in †Armaniidae: Dlussky, 1983: 67; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77; Grimaldi, et al. 1997: 7.
• †Pseudarmania in †Sphecomyrminae: Wilson, 1987: 49.
• †Pseudarmania in †Armaniinae, †Armaniini: Bolton, 1994: 187; Bolton, 2003: 260.
• †Pseudarmania in †Sphecomyrminae, †Sphecomyrmini: Borysenko, 2017: 15, 17.
• †Pseudarmania as junior synonym of †Sphecomyrma: Wilson, 1987: 49; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 9.
• †Pseudarmania as genus: Dlussky, 1983: 69; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77; Carpenter, 1992: 494; Grimaldi, et al. 1997: 7; subsequent authors; Borysenko, 2017: 15, 17.
• [†Pseudoarmania: incorrect subsequent spelling by Carpenter, 1992: 494.]
• †Pseudarmania catalogues: Bolton, 1995b: 369.
• †Pseudarmania references: Grimaldi, et al. 1997: 5 (notes).

References

• Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 187, Pseudarmania in Armaniinae)
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 369, Pseudarmania as genus)
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 260, Pseudarmania in Armaniinae, Armaniini)
• 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.
• Carpenter, F. M. 1992. Treatise on invertebrate paleontology. Part R. Arthropoda 4. Volume 4. Superclass Hexapoda. Boulder: Geological Society of America, pp. i-ii, 279-655. (page 494, Pseudarmania as genus [misspelled Pseudoarmania])
• Dlussky, G. M. 1983. A new family of Upper Cretaceous Hymenoptera: an "intermediate link" between the ants and the scolioids. Paleontol. Zh. 1983(3 3: 65-78 (page 67, 69, Pseudarmania in Armaniidae; Pseudarmania as genus)
• Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. (page 77, Pseudarmania in Armaniidae; Pseudarmania as genus)
• Grimaldi, D.; Agosti, D.; Carpenter, J. M. 1997. New and rediscovered primitive ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey, and their phylogenetic relationships. American Museum Novitates 3208: 1-43 (page 7, Pseudarmania in Armaniidae; Pseudarmania as genus; [misspelled as *Pseudoarmania])
• Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp. (page 9, Pseudarmania as junior synonym of Sphecomyrma)
• Wilson, E. O. 1987b. The earliest known ants: an analysis of the Cretaceous species and an inference concerning their social organization. Paleobiol. 13: 44-53 (page 49, Pseudarmania in Sphecomyrminae; Pseudarmania as junior synonym of Sphecomyrma)