Protozigrasimecia
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| †Protozigrasimecia Temporal range: Early Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous Burmese amber, Kachin State, Myanmar | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Zigrasimeciinae |
| Genus: | †Protozigrasimecia Cao, Boudinot & Gao, 2020 |
| Type species | |
| Protozigrasimecia chauli | |
| Diversity | |
| 1 fossil species (Species Checklist, Species by Country) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Burmese amber, Kachin State, Myanmar (Early Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †PROTOZIGRASIMECIA [†Zigrasimeciinae]
- †Protozigrasimecia Cao, Boudinot & Gao, 2020: 166. Type-species: †Protozigrasimecia chauli, by original designation.
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).
- Cao, H., Boudinot, B.E., Wang, Z., Miao, X., Shih, C., Ren, D., Gao, T. 2020. Two new iron maiden ants from Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: †Zigrasimeciini). Myrmecological News 30: 161-173 (doi:10.25849/myrmecol.news_030:161).
