Macabeemyrma ovata
†Macabeemyrma ovata Temporal range: Ypresian, Early Eocene McAbee, British Columbia, Canada | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmeciinae |
Genus: | Macabeemyrma |
Species: | †M. ovata |
Binomial name | |
†Macabeemyrma ovata Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006 |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from McAbee, British Columbia, Canada (Ypresian, Early Eocene).
British Colombian fossil localities containing ants (Archibald et al., 2018).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †ovata. †Macabeemyrma ovata Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006: 499, figs. 11, 17D (q.) CANADA (Eocene).
Description
References
- Archibald, S.B., Cover, S.P. & Moreau, C.S. 2006. Bulldog ants of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands and history of the subfamily. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99: 486-523.
- Archibald, S.B., Rasnitsyn, A.P., Brothers, D.J., Mathewes, R.W. 2018. Modernisation of the Hymenoptera: ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies of the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of western North America. The Canadian Entomologist 150, 205-257 (doi:10.4039/tce.20*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:[https://doi.org/10.1080%2F08912963.2021.2010192 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).