Miomyrmex

Miomyrmex
Temporal range: Oligocene?
Miomyrmex impactus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Miomyrmex
Carpenter, 1930
Type species
Formica impacta, now Miomyrmex impactus
Diversity
2 fossil species

Miomyrmex is an extinct genus of ant of the subfamily Dolichoderinae. The fossils were first discovered in the United States in the state of Colorado in 1930.[1]

Species

There are two species in this extinct genus.[2]

References

  1. Carpenter, F. M. 1930. The fossil ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 70:1-66. [1930-01] PDF 123533
  2. Bolton, Barry. "An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton". antcat.org. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
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