Primitive new ants in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar, New Jersey, and Canada (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

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Alternative: Cretaceous ants

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Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3485

By

Engel, Michael S.

Grimaldi, David A.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, NY American Museum of Natural History c2005

Notes

Title from caption.

"July 25, 2005."

"New information is provided on the oldest fossil ants (Formicidae), including the description of a new species of ýSphecomyrma (ýSphecomyrminae), a new genus of sphecomyrmines, a new genus of apparent myrmeciines, and a new genus of apparent aneuretines. New material from New Jersey amber (Turonian) includes workers of ýSphecomyrma freyi Wilson and Brown preserved together in the same piece of amber, a worker of an unidentifiable ýSphecomyrma species, and a worker of ýBrownimecia clavata Grimaldi, Agosti, and Carpenter (ýBrownimeciinae). A new species of ýSphecomyrma in New Jersey amber is described and figured from a worker as ýS. mesaki, new species. Two worker specimens in Campanian amber from Canada are described, one of which is described as ýCananeuretus occidentalis, new genus and species, and is tentatively placed in Aneuretinae. From Burmese amber (Albian-Cenomanian) are the oldest, definitive ants, along with ones in amber from Charente-Maritime of France (approximately contemporaneous in age). A new genus and species, allied to ýSphecomyrma, is described from these deposits as ýSphecomyrmodes orientalis, along with a remarkable new 'poneroid', ýMyanmyrma gracilis, new genus and species (Myrmeciinae?). A key to the species of ýSphecomyrma is provided, the classification of ants summarized, and the Cretaceous records of Formicidae briefly outlined"--P. 2.

Subjects

Alberta , Amber fossils , Ants, Fossil , Burma , Cretaceous , Insects, Fossil , Kachin State , Middlesex County , New Jersey , Paleontology

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3485, 2005

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2005)485[0001:PNAICA]2.0.CO;2
OCLC: 61173090