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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton
Catalog › Formicidae › †Zigrasimeciinae › †Zigrasimecia
†Zigrasimecia Barden & Grimaldi, 2013 valid feminine
†Zigrasimecia Barden & Grimaldi, 2013: 407 Type-species: †Zigrasimecia tonsora, by original designation.
  • †Zigrasimecia incertae sedis in Formicidae: Barden & Grimaldi, 2013; †Zigrasimecia in †Sphecomyrminae: †Sphecomyrmini: Perrichot, 2014; †Zigrasimecia in †Sphecomyrminae: †Zigrasimeciini: Borysenko, 2017: 3; Cao et al., 2020: 162.
Genus †Zigrasimecia references

Barden & Grimaldi, 2013: 407 (diagnosis of gyne); Perrichot, 2014: 166 (diagnosis of worker, review of genus); Cao et al., 2020: 163 (emended female diagnosis).

Citations
  • Barden, P.; Grimaldi, D. A. 2013. A new genus of highly specialized ants in Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3681:405-412. PDF
  • 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. PDF
  • Cao, H.; Boudinot, B. E.; Wang, Z.; Miao, X.; Shih, C.; Ren, D.; Gao, T. 2020. Two new iron maiden ants from Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: †Zigrasimeciini). Myrmecological News 30:161-173. 10.25849/myrmecol.news_030:161 PDF
  • 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. PDF

Fossil: 4 valid species

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