Fallomyrma
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| †Fallomyrma Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene Rovno amber, Ukraine | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Genus: | †Fallomyrma Dlussky & Radchenko, 2006 |
| Type species | |
| Fallomyrma transversa | |
| Diversity | |
| 4 fossil species (Species Checklist)
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Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Bitterfeld amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene), Danish-Scandinavian amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene), Rovno amber (Priabonian, Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †FALLOMYRMA [Myrmicinae]
- †Fallomyrma Dlussky & Radchenko, 2006a: 154. Type-species: †Fallomyrma transversa, by original designation.
References
- Dlussky, G. M. and A. Radchenko. 2006. Fallomyrma gen. nov., a new myrmicine ant genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the late Eocene European amber. Annales Zoologici 56(1): 153-157.
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Radchenko, A.G., Dlussky, G.M. 2018. Ants of the Genus Fallomyrma Dlussky et Radchenko (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Late Eocene European Ambers. Paleontological Journal, 52: 155–163.
