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Sphecomyrma
Sphecomyrma is an extinct genus of ants which existed in the Cretaceous approximately 79 to 92 million years ago. The first specimens were collected in 1966, found embedded in amber which had been exposed in the cliffs of Cliffwood, New Jersey, by Edmund Frey and his wife. In 1967, zoologists E. O. Wilson, Frank Carpenter and William L. Brown, Jr. published a paper describing and naming Sphecomyrma freyi. They described an ant with a mosaic of features—a mix of characteristics from modern ants and aculeate wasps. It possessed a metapleural gland, a feature unique to ants. Furthermore, it was w

Pheidole neokohli
species of ant

Pheidole parasitica
species of insect
Pheidole lanuginosa
species of insect
Azteca alpha
species of insect (fossil)
Pheidole harrisonfordi
species of insect
Pheidole harlequina
species of ant