Eurymyrmex

Eurymyrmex
Temporal range: Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Eurymyrmex
Zhang, Sun & Zhang, 1994
Species: E. geologicus
Binomial name
Eurymyrmex geologicus
Zhang, Sun & Zhang, 1994

Eurymyrmex is an extinct genus of ant in the Formicidae subfamily Dolichoderinae. The genus contains a single described species Eurymyrmex geologicus. It was described in 1994, where the first fossils of the ant were found in China.[1]

References

  1. Zhang, J., Sun, B. ; Zhang, X. 1994. Miocene insects and spiders from Shanwang, Shandong. Beijing: Science Press, v + 298 pp.: 298pp (page 167, Eurymyrmex as genus; Eurymyrmex in Dolichoderinae)
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