Myrmeciites tabanifluviensis
†Myrmeciites tabanifluviensis Temporal range: Ypresian, Early Eocene Horsefly River, British Columbia, Canada | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmeciinae |
Tribe: | collective group name |
Genus: | Myrmeciites |
Species: | †M. tabanifluviensis |
Binomial name | |
†Myrmeciites tabanifluviensis Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006 |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Horsefly River, British Columbia, Canada (Ypresian, Early Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †tabanifluviensis. †Myrmeciites (?) tabanifluviensis Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006: 502, figs. 15, 16O (indeterminate) CANADA (Eocene).
Description
References
- 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:10.1080/08912963.2021.2010192).
- 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).