Ypresiomyrma orientalis
†Ypresiomyrma orientalis Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene Bolshaya Svetlovodnaya, Sikhote-Alin, Russia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmeciinae |
Genus: | Ypresiomyrma |
Species: | †Y. orientalis |
Binomial name | |
†Ypresiomyrma orientalis Dlussky, Rasnitsyn & Perfilieva, 2015 |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Bolshaya Svetlovodnaya, Sikhote-Alin, Russia (Priabonian, Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †orientalis. †Ypresiomyrma orientalis Dlussky, Rasnitsyn & Perfilieva, 2015: 139, figs. 18, 19 (q.) RUSSIA (Eocene).
Description
References
- [[Media:Dlussky, G. M., Rasnitsyn, A. P., Perfilieva, K. S. 2015. The ants of Bol’shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East).pdf|Dlussky, G.M., Rasnitsyn, A.P. & Perfilieva, K.S. 2015. The ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bolshaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East). Caucasian Entomoloigcal Bulletin, 11, 1*Jouault, C., Nel, A. 2021. The oldest Cenozoic ant fossil: †Tyrannomecia gen. nov. (Formicidae: Myrmeciinae) from the Palaeocene Menat Formation (France). Historical Biology, 1–8 (doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.2010192).
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- Mera-Rodríguez, D., Jourdan, H., Ward, P.S., Shattuck, S., Cover, S.P., Wilson, E.O., Rabeling, C. 2023. Biogeography and evolution of social parasitism in Australian Myrmecia bulldog ants revealed by phylogenomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 186, 107825 (doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107825).