Boltonimecia canadensis

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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†Boltonimecia canadensis (Wilson, 1985) valid

†Sphecomyrma canadensis Wilson, 1985f: 206, figs. 1, 2 (w.) CANADA (Alberta, Medicine Hat Amber, Cretaceous).

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Canada: Alberta, Medicine Hat. Primary type depository: Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Ottawa, Canada (CNC). Primary type specimen: CAS 330.

Combination in †Boltonimecia: Borysenko, 2017: 4.
Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 392; Grimaldi et al., 1997: 6; Engel & Grimaldi, 2005: 7 (in key); Barden, 2017: 2; Borysenko, 2017: 4 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

†Sphecomyrma canadensis

Citations

Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24:1-30. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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
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. PDF
Grimaldi, 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. PDF
Wilson, E. O. 1985f. Ants from the Cretaceous and Eocene amber of North America. Psyche (Cambridge) 92:205-216. PDF

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