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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
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Formicidae
›
†Sphecomyrminae
›
†Sphecomyrmini
›
†
Gerontoformica
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†
Gerontoformica orientalis
†
Gerontoformica
orientalis
(Engel & Grimaldi, 2005)
incertae sedis
in genus, unidentifiable
†
Sphecomyrmodes orientalis
Engel & Grimaldi, 2005
: 5, figs. 3, 4 (w.) MYANMAR (Burmese Amber, Cretaceous).
Combination in
†
Gerontoformica
: in supplemental information (not paginated).
†
Gerontoformica orientalis
in
†
Gerontoformica orientalis
species group:
Boudinot
et al.
, 2020
: 29.
Status as species:
Barden & Grimaldi, 2013
: 406;
Barden, 2017
: 3.
Nomen dubium
:
Boudinot
et al.
, 2022
: 1362.
Obsolete combinations
†
Sphecomyrmodes orientalis
Citations
Barden, P.
2017.
Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages.
Myrmecological News 24:1-30.
PDF
Barden, P.
;
Grimaldi, D. A.
2013.
A new genus of highly specialized ants in Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Zootaxa 3681:405-412.
PDF
Boudinot, B. E.
;
Perrichot, V.
;
Chaul, J. C. M.
2020.
†
Camelosphecia
gen. nov., lost ant-wasp intermediates from the mid-Cretaceous (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea).
ZooKeys 1005:21-55.
10.3897/zookeys.1005.57629
PDF
Boudinot, B. E.
;
Richter, A.
;
Katzke, J.
;
Chaul, J. C. M.
;
Keller, R. A.
;
Economo, E. P.
;
Beutel, R. G.
;
Yamamoto, S.
2022.
Evidence for the evolution of eusociality in stem ants and a systematic revision of †
Gerontoformica
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195:1355-1389.
10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab097/6523228
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 3485:1-23.
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valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
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Gerontoformica
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