Macabeemyrma - AntWiki (original) (raw)
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Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from McAbee, British Columbia, Canada (Ypresian, Early Eocene).
Castes
Phylogeny
See Phylogeny of Myrmeciinae for details.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †MACABEEMYRMA [incertae sedis in Myrmeciinae]
- †Macabeemyrma Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006: 498. Type-species: †Macabeemyrma ovata, by original designation.
References
- Archibald, S.B., Cover, S.P. & Moreau, C.S. 2006. Bulldog ants of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands and history of the subfamily. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99: 486-523.
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.