Brownimecia clavata
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†Brownimecia clavata Temporal range: Turonian, Late Cretaceous Raritan (New Jersey) amber, New Jersey, United States | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Brownimeciinae |
Genus: | Brownimecia |
Species: | †B. clavata |
Binomial name | |
†Brownimecia clavata Grimaldi, Agosti & Carpenter, 1997 |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Raritan (New Jersey) amber, New Jersey, United States (Turonian, Late Cretaceous).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †clavata. †Brownimecia clavata Grimaldi, Agosti & Carpenter, 1997: 20, figs. 1e-f, 7-11 (w.) NEW JERSEY AMBER (U.S.A.: New Jersey, Cretaceous).
- Status as species: Bolton, 2003: 75; Engel & Grimaldi, 2005: 12; Barden, 2017: 2.
Description
References
- Boudinot, B.E., Perrichot, V., Chaul, J.C.M. 2020. †Camelosphecia gen. nov., lost ant-wasp intermediates from the mid-Cretaceous (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea). ZooKeys 1005, 21–55 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1005.57629).
- Grimaldi, D.; Agosti, D.; Carpenter, J. M. 1997. New and rediscovered primitive ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey, and their phylogenetic relationships. Am. Mus. Novit. 3208: 1-43. (page 20, figs. 1e-f, 7-11 worker described)