Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Alternative combination: Sphecomyrmodes spiralis
Full reference: P. Barden and D. Grimaldi. 2014. A diverse ant fauna from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). PLoS One 9(4):e93627
Belongs to Gerontoformica according to B. E. Boudinot et al. 2022
See also Barden and Grimaldi 2014, Barden and Grimaldi 2016 and Boudinot et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Gerontoformica contega, Gerontoformica cretacica, Gerontoformica gracilis, Gerontoformica magna, Gerontoformica occidentalis, Gerontoformica orientalis, Gerontoformica pilosa, Gerontoformica priapos, Gerontoformica robusta, Gerontoformica rugosa, Gerontoformica sternorhabda, Gerontoformica subcuspis, Gerontoformica tendir
Type specimen: JZC Bu222A, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Zigras coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Zigras coll)
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