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Usomyrma
| †Usomyrma Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Danish-Scandinavian amber, Denmark | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Leptomyrmecini |
| Genus: | †Usomyrma Dlussky, Radchenko & Dubovikoff, 2014 |
| Type species | |
| Usomyrma mirabilis | |
| Diversity | |
| 1 fossil species (Species Checklist) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Danish-Scandinavian amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene).
Distribution
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †USOMYRMA [Dolichoderinae: Leptomyrmecini]
- †Usomyrma Dlussky, Radchenko & Dubovikoff, 2014: 932. Type-species: †Usomyrma mirabilis, 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., Radchenko, A., and Dubovikoff, D. 2014. A new enigmatic ant genus from late Eocene Danish Amber and its evolutionary and zoogeographic significance. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 59: 931–939.