Macabeemyrma ovata

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Macabeemyrma ovata
Temporal range: Ypresian, Early Eocene McAbee, British Columbia, Canada
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 Colombia fossil map (Archibald et al., 2018).jpg

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

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