Gerontoformica Nel and Perrault 2004 (ant)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Synonym: Sphecomyrmodes Engel and Grimaldi 2005

Full reference: A. Nel and G. Perrault. 2004. Taxonomic names, in The oldest ant in the Lower Cretaceous amber of Charente-Maritime (SW France) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Geologica Acta 2:23-29

Parent taxon: Sphecomyrminae according to B. E. Boudinot et al. 2022

See also Barden and Grimaldi 2016, Bolton 2012, Borysenko 2017, Boudinot et al. 2020, Engel and Grimaldi 2005, Nel and Perrault 2004 and Perrichot et al. 2007

Sister taxa: Myanmyrma, Sphecomyrma, Sphecomyrmini

Subtaxa: Gerontoformica contega Gerontoformica cretacica Gerontoformica gracilis Gerontoformica magna Gerontoformica occidentalis Gerontoformica orientalis Gerontoformica pilosa Gerontoformica robusta Gerontoformica rugosa Gerontoformica spiralis Gerontoformica sternorhabda Gerontoformica subcuspis Gerontoformica tendir

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (3 collections), Myanmar (3)

Total: 6 collections including 17 occurrences

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