Sphecomyrminae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Formicoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Formicoidea

Familia: Formicidae
Subfamilia: †Sphecomyrminae
Tribus: †Haidomyrmecini – †Sphecomyrmini – †Zigrasimeciini

Overview of genera

Baikuris – Boltonimecia – Cretomyrma – Dlusskyidris – Haidomyrmex – Haidomyrmodes – Haidoterminus – Sphecomyrma – Zigrasimecia

Name

Sphecomyrminae Wilson & Brown, 1967

Type genus: Sphecomyrma Wilson & Brown, 1967

References

• Barden, P. & Grimaldi, D. 2013. A new genus of highly specialized ants in Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3681(4): 405–412. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.4.5 Reference page. 
• Borysenko, L. 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 0570, 1–57 PDF.
• Engel, M.S. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2005. Primitive New Ants in Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar, New Jersey, and Canada (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 3485: 1–24. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2005)485[0001:PNAICA]2.0.CO;2
• McKellar, R.C., Glasier, J.R.N. & Engel, M.S. 2011. A new trap-jawed ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Haidomyrmecini) from Canadian Late Cretaceous amber. Canadian Entomologist 145: 454–465 DOI: 10.4039/tce.2013.23
• Perfilieva, K.S. 2011. New data on the wing morphology of the Cretaceous Sphecomyrminae ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Paleontologicheskii zhurnal 2011(3): 38–45. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030111030117 [in Russian, English translation in Paleontological journal 45(3): 275–283 (2011).]
• Perrichot, V., Nel, A., Néraudeau, D., Lacau, S. & Guyot, T. 2008. New fossil ants in French Cretaceous amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Naturwissenschaften 95: 91–97. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-007-0302-7
• Wilson, E.O., Carpenter, F.M. & Brown, W.L. 1967. The first Mesozoic ants, with the description of a new subfamily. Psyche 74: 1–19. DOI: 10.1155/1967/89604

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