Formiciinae

Formiciinae
Temporal range: Lutetian,
Titanomyrma, with a rufous hummingbird for scale
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formiciinae
Lutz, 1986
Type species
Formicium berryi
Westwood, 1854
Genera

Formiciinae is an extinct subfamily of ants known from Eocene deposits in Europe and North America.[1]

  1. ^ Archibald, S. Bruce; Johnson, Kirk R.; Mathewes, Rolf W.; Greenwood, David R. (2011). "Intercontinental dispersal of giant thermophilic ants across the Arctic during early Eocene hyperthermals". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 278 (1725): 3679–86. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0729. PMC 3203508. PMID 21543354.

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