Myrmica Latreille 1804 (ant)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Synonym: Nothomyrmica Wheeler 1915

Parent taxon: Myrmicini according to K. Jessen 2020

See also Bolton 2003, Bolton 2012, Carpenter 1992, Pongrácz 1931, Radchenko 2023, Radchenko et al. 2007, Scudder 1878, Ward et al. 2015 and Wheeler 1915

Sister taxa: Manica, Plesiomyrmex, Protomyrmica

Subtaxa: Myrmica aemula Myrmica angusticollis Myrmica damzeni Myrmica dictyosa Myrmica electrina Myrmica eocenica Myrmica incompleta Myrmica intermedia Myrmica lobifrons Myrmica longispinosa Myrmica macrocephala Myrmica molassica Myrmica nebulosa Myrmica nungesseri Myrmica obsoleta Myrmica paradoxa Myrmica rudis Myrmica saxonica Myrmica schaefersi

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (1: British Columbia collection), Greenland (2), United States (4: Colorado, Wisconsin)

• Miocene of Austria (1), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (3)

• Oligocene of Germany (2)

• Eocene of Denmark (1), Germany (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (8), Ukraine (2), United States (1: Wyoming)

Total: 30 collections including 42 occurrences

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