An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
†Sphecomyrminae
Wilson & Brown, 1967
valid
Fossil: 2 valid tribes, 9 valid genera, 18 valid species
†Sphecomyrminae Wilson & Brown, 1967Wilson, E. O.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 1967. [Untitled. Descriptions of new taxa: Sphecomyrminae Wilson and Brown, new subfamily; Sphecomyrma Wilson and Brown, new genus; Sphecomyrma freyi Wilson and Brown, new species.]. Pp. 6-10 in: Wilson, E. O.; Carpenter, F. M.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 1967. The first Mesozoic ants, with the description of a new subfamily. Psyche (Cambridge) 74:1-19. [1967-08-18] 130411: 6. Type-genus: †Sphecomyrma. AntWeb AntWiki
- †Sphecomyrminae as family: Dlussky, 1983Dlussky, G. M. 1983. A new family of Upper Cretaceous Hymenoptera: an "intermediate link" between the ants and the scolioids. [In Russian.]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1983(3):65-78. [1983-08-29>] PDF 124128: 77 [Sphecomyrmidae]; Dlussky, 1987Dlussky, G. M. 1987. New Formicoidea (Hymenoptera) of the Upper Cretaceous. [In Russian.]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1987(1):131-135. [1987-02-04>] PDF 124130: 132 [Sphecomyrmidae]; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. [In Russian.]. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) 1988. Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. [1987-12-22>] 124165: 77 [Sphecomyrmidae].
- †Sphecomyrminae as subfamily of Formicidae: Wilson, Carpenter & Brown, 1967Wilson, E. O.; Carpenter, F. M.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 1967. The first Mesozoic ants, with the description of a new subfamily. Psyche (Cambridge) 74:1-19. PDF 130410: 6; Dlussky, 1975aDlussky, G. M. 1975a. Superfamily Formicoidea Latreille, 1802. Family Formicidae Latreille, 1802. [In Russian.]. Pp. 114-122 in: Rasnitsyn, A. P. 1975. Hymenoptera Apocrita of Mesozoic. [In Russian.]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta. Akademiya Nauk SSSR 147:1-134. [1975-01-07>] [1975-01-07>] 124142: 114; Wilson, 1987bWilson, E. O. 1987b. The earliest known ants: an analysis of the Cretaceous species and an inference concerning their social organization. Paleobiology 13:44-53. [1987-03-13] PDF 130401: 49; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp. 122852: 9; Bolton, 1994Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. [1994-07-25] 122834: 184; Dlussky, 1996BDlussky, G. M. 1996B. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Burmese amber. Paleontological Journal. 30:449-454. [1996-08] 131107: 83; Grimaldi, Agosti & Carpenter, 1997Grimaldi, D.; Agosti, D.; Carpenter, J. M. 1997. New and rediscovered primitive ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey, and their phylogenetic relationships. American Museum Novitates 3208:1-43. [1977-10-23] PDF 131403: 7; Dlussky, 1999ADlussky, G. M. 1999A. The first find of the Formicoidea (Hymenoptera) in the lower Cretaceous of the northern hemisphere. [In Russian.]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1999(3):62-66. [1999-06] PDF 131112: 63; Bolton, 2003Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. [2003-11-10] PDF 130789: 74, 260; Perrichot, Nel, Néraudeau, Lacau & Guyot, 2008Perrichot, V.; Nel, A.; Néraudeau, D.; Lacau, S.; Guyot, T. 2008. New fossil ants in French Cretaceous amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Naturwissenschaften 95:91-97. [2008-02] PDF 132010: 95.
- †Sphecomyrminae as stem ant subfamily of Formicidae: Ward, 2007CWard, P. S. 2007C. Phylogeny, classification, and species-level taxonomy of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1668:549-563. [2007-12-21] PDF 132572: 555.
Subfamily and tribes references
Bolton, 2003Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. [2003-11-10] PDF 130789: 74, 260 (diagnoses, comments, synopsis).
Genera references
Barden & Grimaldi, 2014Barden, P.; Grimaldi, D. 2014. A diverse ant fauna from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). PLoS ONE 9(4):e93627. [2014-04-03] PDF 142579: 18 (key to †Sphecomyrmodes = †Gerontoformica workers); Perrichot, Wang & Engel, 2016Perrichot, V.; Wang, B.; Engel, M. S. 2016. Extreme morphogenesis and ecological specialization among Cretaceous basal ants. Current Biology 26:1468-1472. [2016-06-06] 10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.075 PDF 142934: Supplemental Information (key to Haidomyrmecini genera)
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