Fonsecahymen
†Fonsecahymen Temporal range: Oligocene Fonseca Formation, Fonseca, Minas Gerais State, Brazil | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | uncertain |
Genus: | †Fonsecahymen Martins-Neto & Mendes, 2002 |
Type species | |
Fonsecahymen stigmata | |
Diversity | |
1 fossil species (Species Checklist) |
While this genus was originally placed in the subfamily Formicinae, Bolton (in the 1 July 2012 release of his NGC) considers it to be incertae sedis within the Formicidae and thus unplaced to subfamily.
Identification
Checklist of Fonsecahymen species
Distribution
This taxon is known from Fonseca Formation, Fonseca, Minas Gerais State, Brazil (Oligocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †FONSECAHYMEN [incertae sedis in Formicidae]
- †Fonsecahymen Martins-Neto & Mendes, 2002: 29. Type-species: †Fonsecahymen stigmata, by original designation.
References
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Martins-Neto, R.G. & Mendes, M. 2002. The Fonseca formation paleoentomofauna (Fonseca Basin, Oligocene of Minas Gerais state, Brazil) with description of new taxa. Acta Geologica Leopoldensia, 25(55): 27-33.