Elaeomyrmex

Elaeomyrmex
Temporal range: Oligocene
Elaeomyrmex gracilis paratype worker
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Tribe: incertae sedis
Genus: †Elaeomyrmex
Carpenter, 1930
Type species
Elaeomyrmex gracilis
Species
  • E. coloradensis
  • E. gracilis

Elaeomyrmex is an extinct genus of ant in the subfamily Dolichoderinae and containing two species. The fossils were first described from the Florissant Formation, Colorado in 1930.[1]

Only the workers and queens have been properly studied, and it shows the workers were similar in appearance to the queens, except the queens were the largest of the colony.[1]

Species

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E. coloradensis paratype queen
  • Elaeomyrmex coloradensis Carpenter, 1930
  • Elaeomyrmex gracilis Carpenter, 1930

References

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  1. ^ a b Carpenter, F. M. 1930. The fossil ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 70:1-66. [1930-01] PDF 123533


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