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Sphecomyrma nexa

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Sphecomyrma nexa was named by Sosiak et al. (2024). Its type specimen is AMNH-NC-515, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Neuse River amber, which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in North Carolina.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2024Sphecomyrma nexa Sosiak et al. p. 1756 figs. 1A,B, S1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
—Sphecomyrmines
subfamilySphecomyrminae
genusSphecomyrma
speciesnexa

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Sphecomyrma nexa Sosiak et al. 2024
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Early/Lower Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Campanian83.5 - 70.6USA (North Carolina) Sphecomyrma nexa (type locality: 152037)