Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Alternative combination: Sphecomyrmodes gracilis
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 Y. Zhuang et al. 2025
See also Barden and Grimaldi 2014, Barden and Grimaldi 2016, Boudinot et al. 2020, Boudinot et al. 2022 and Richter et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Gerontoformica contega, Gerontoformica cretacica, Gerontoformica magna, Gerontoformica occidentalis, Gerontoformica orientalis, Gerontoformica pilosa, Gerontoformica priapos, Gerontoformica robusta, Gerontoformica rugosa, Gerontoformica spiralis, Gerontoformica sternorhabda, Gerontoformica subcuspis, Gerontoformica tendir
Type specimen: JZC Bu324A, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Zigras coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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