Zigrasimecia

†Zigrasimecia Temporal range: Early Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Burmese amber, Kachin Province, Myanmar
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Sphecomyrminae
Tribe:	Zigrasimeciini
Genus:	†Zigrasimecia Barden & Grimaldi, 2013
Type species
Zigrasimecia tonsora
Diversity
3 fossil species (Species Checklist, Species by Country)

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Distribution

This taxon is known from Burmese amber, Kachin Province, Myanmar (Early Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous).

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• †ZIGRASIMECIA [†Sphecomyrminae: †Zigrasimeciini]
  • †Zigrasimecia Barden & Grimaldi, 2013: 407. Type-species: †Zigrasimecia tonsora, by original designation.

Taxonomic history

• †Zigrasimecia in †Sphecomyrminae: Barden & Grimaldi, 2013: 410.
• †Zigrasimecia in †Sphecomyrminae, †Sphecomyrmini: Perrichot, 2014: 166.
• †Zigrasimecia in †Sphecomyrminae, †Zigrasimeciini: Borysenko, 2017: 18.
• †Zigrasimecia as genus: all authors.

References

• Barden, P. & Grimaldi, D. 2013. A new genus of highly specialized ants in Cretaceous Burmese Amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3681, 405-412 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3681.4.5 ).
• Borysenko, L.H. 2017. Description of a new genus of primitive ants from Canadian amber, with the study of relationships between stem- and crown-group ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insecta Mundi 570: 1–57.
• Cao, H., Boudinot, B.E., Shih, C., Ren, D., Gao, T. 2020. Cretaceous ants shed new light on the origins of worker polymorphism. Science China Life Science 63, 1-4 (doi:10.1007/s11427-019-1617-4).
• Perrichot, V. 2014. A new species of the Cretaceous ant Zigrasimecia based on the worker caste reveals placement of the genus in the Sphecomyrminae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 19, 165-169.