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Wumyrmex
| †Wumyrmex Temporal range: Ypresian, Early Eocene Fushun amber, Liaoning, China | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Genus: | †Wumyrmex Hong, 2002 |
| Type species | |
| Wumyrmex furvis | |
| Diversity | |
| 1 fossil species (Species Checklist) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Fushun amber, Liaoning, China (Ypresian, Early Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †WUMYRMEX [incertae sedis in Myrmicinae]
- †Wumyrmex Hong, 2002: 566. Type-species: †Wumyrmex furvis, by original designation.
References
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Hong, Y.-C. 2002. Amber insects of China. Beijing Scientific and Technological Publishing House/Henan Scientific and Technological Publishing House, Beijing, in 2 vols. (page 566, Wumyrmex as genus)