Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: M. S. Engel and D. A. Grimaldi. 2005. Primitive New Ants in Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar, New Jersey, and Canada (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 3485:1-24

Belongs to Myanmyrma according to B. E. Boudinot et al. 2020

See also Bolton 2012 and Engel and Grimaldi 2005

Sister taxon: Myanmyrma maraudera

Type specimen: AMNH Bu-014, an exoskeleton (Head). Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection)

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