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Sphecomyrma freyi
| †Sphecomyrma freyi Temporal range: Turonian, Late Cretaceous Raritan (New Jersey) amber, New Jersey, United States | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Sphecomyrminae |
| Tribe: | Sphecomyrmini |
| Genus: | Sphecomyrma |
| Species: | †S. freyi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Sphecomyrma freyi Wilson & Brown, 1967
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Identification
Specomyrma freyi drawing
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Distribution
This taxon was described from Raritan (New Jersey) amber, New Jersey, United States (Turonian, Late Cretaceous).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †freyi. †Sphecomyrma freyi Wilson & Brown, in Wilson, Carpenter & Brown, 1967: 8, pls. 1-4, figs. 1, 2 (w.) U.S.A. (Cretaceous). Designation of neotype: Grimaldi, Agosti & Carpenter, 1997: 12. See also: Engel & Grimaldi, 2005: 9.
Type Material
- Neotype (designated by Grimaldi et al., 1997: 12), worker, Sunrise Landing, E. Brunswick, Middlesex Co., New Jersey, United States, Dec. 1994, Case, Borodin, Leggett, AMNH No. NJ-112, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Description
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).
- 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).
- Chaul, J.C.M. 2023. A revision of the Cretaceous ant genus Zigrasimecia Barden & Grimaldi, 2013 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: †Zigrasimeciinae). Zootaxa 5325(3), 301–341 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5325.3.1).
- 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 12, Designation of neotype)
- Richter, A., Boudinot, B., Yamamoto, S., Katzke, J., Beutel, R. G. 2022. The first reconstruction of the head anatomy of a Cretaceous insect, †Gerontoformica gracilis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), and the early evolution of ants. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(5): 1-80 (doi:10.1093/isd/ixac013).
- Sosiak, C., Cockx, P., Suarez, P.A., McKellar, R., Barden, P. 2024. Prolonged faunal turnover in earliest ants revealed by North American Cretaceous amber. Current Biology (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.02.058).
- Wilson, E. O.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 1967. [Untitled. Descriptions of new taxa: Sphecomyrminae Wilson and Brown, new subfamily; Sphecomyrma Wilson and Brown, new genus; Sphecomyrma freyi Wilson and Brown, new species.]. Pp. 6-10 in: Wilson, E. O., Carpenter, F. M., Brown, W. L., Jr. The first Mesozoic ants, with the description of a new subfamily. Psyche (Camb.) 74:1-19. (page 8, pls. 1-4, figs. 1, 2 worker described)