Zigrasimecia
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| †Zigrasimecia 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: | †Zigrasimecia Barden & Grimaldi, 2013 |
| Type species | |
| Zigrasimecia tonsora | |
| Diversity | |
| 3 fossil species (Species Checklist, Species by Country)
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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.
- †ZIGRASIMECIA [†Zigrasimeciinae]
- †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.
- 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., 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.
