Gesomyrmex miegi, Theobald, 1937

Dlussky, Gennady M., Wappler, Torsten & Wedmann, Sonja, 2009, Fossil ants of the genus Gesomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Eocene of Europe and remarks on the evolution of arboreal ant communities, Zootaxa 2031, pp. 1-20 : 14

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.186261

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6223497

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scientific name

Gesomyrmex miegi
status

comb. nov.

Formicidae View in CoL (incertae sedis) miegi Théobald, 1937 comb. nov.

Gesomyrmex Miegi Théobald, 1937 View in CoL , p. 211, pl. XIV, figs. 22, 23 (3, Ƥ).

Gesomyrmex miegi Théobald View in CoL : Burnham, 1978, p.114; Bolton, 1995, p. 207.

Comments. Described from two imprints from Kleinkembs, Haut-Rhin, France (early Oligocene), both without head and wing venation. The poor preservation of these imprints does not permit the assignment of these ants to any living or fossil genus, so we propose to regard these specimens as Formicidae incertae sedis.

Bolton, B. (1995) A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 504 pp.

Burnham, L. (1978) Survey of social insects in the fossil records. Psyche, 89, 85 - 133.

Theobald, N. (1937) Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocenes de France. G. Thomas, Nancy, 473 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Gesomyrmex