Archimyrmex rostratus
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| †Archimyrmex rostratus Temporal range: Lutetian, Middle Eocene Green River Formation, Colorado, United States | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmeciinae |
| Genus: | Archimyrmex |
| Species: | †A. rostratus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Archimyrmex rostratus Cockerell, 1923
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Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Green River Formation, Colorado, United States (Lutetian, Middle Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †rostratus. †Archimyrmex rostratus Cockerell, 1923a: 52, figs. A, B (w.) U.S.A. (Colorado, Green River, Eocene).
- Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002: 420 (q.).
- Status as species: Carpenter, 1930: 16; Burnham, 1979: 108; Bolton, 1995b: 75; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002: 420 (redescription); Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2003: 40 (redescription).
Description
References
- Cockerell, T. D. A. 1923a. The earliest known ponerine ant. Entomologist 56: 51-52 (page 52, figs. a, b worker described)
- Dlussky, G. M.; Perfilieva, K.S. 2003a. Paleogene ants of the genus Archimyrmex Cockerell, 1923 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmeciinae). Paleontol. Zh. 1: 40-49 (page 43, redescription)
- Dlussky, G. M.; Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2003 [2002]. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Formation Green River and some other Middle Eocene deposits of North America. Russ. Entomol. J. 11(4): 411-436 (see also)
