Zigrasimecia tonsora Barden and Grimaldi 2013 (ant)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: P. Barden and D. Grimaldi. 2013. A new genus of highly specialized ants in Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3681:405-412

Belongs to Zigrasimecia according to J. C. M. Chaul 2023

See also Barden and Grimaldi 2013 and Boudinot et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Zigrasimecia boudinoti, Zigrasimecia caohuijiae, Zigrasimecia chuyangsui, Zigrasimecia ferox, Zigrasimecia goldingot, Zigrasimecia hoelldobleri, Zigrasimecia perrichoti, Zigrasimecia thate, Zigrasimecia zui

Type specimen: JZC Bu-159, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Zigras coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Zigras coll)

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