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Cretomyrma unicornis

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Cretomyrma unicornis was named by Dlussky (1975). Its type specimen is PIN 3311/363, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1975Cretomyrma unicornis Dlussky p. 116 figs. Fig 129
1987Cretomyrma unicornis Spahr p. 45
2020Cretomyrma unicornis 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
speciesunicornis

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 unicornis Dlussky 1975
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available