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Cretomyrma arnoldii

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Cretomyrma arnoldii was named by Dlussky (1975). Its type specimen is PIN 3130/113, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3130), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Cretomyrma.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1975Cretomyrma arnoldii Dlussky p. 116 figs. Fig 128
1987Cretomyrma arnoldi Spahr p. 45
2020Cretomyrma arnoldii Boudinot et al. p. 28

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

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.

Cretomyrma arnoldii Dlussky 1975
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Diagnosis
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