Bulldog Ants of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands and History of the Subfamily (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae)

• Main Authors: Archibald, S. Bruce, Cover, Stefan P., Moreau, Corrie S.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2006
• Subjects: Systematics; Canada; British Columbia; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://aesa.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/99/3/487; https://doi.org/10.1603/0013-8746(2006)99[487:BAOTEO]2.0.CO;2

The presence of the ant subfamily Myrmeciinae is established in the Early Eocene (Ypresian) Okanagan Highlands localities of Horsefly River, Falkland, McAbee (British Columbia, Canada) and Republic (Washington state, United States) and in the Mo-clay Ølst and Fur Formations (Denmark). Nine new speci...