Gerontoformica Nel and Perrault

Phillip Barden & David A. Grimaldi, 2016, Adaptive Radiation in Socially Advanced Stem-Group Ants from the Cretaceous, Current Biology 26, pp. 515-521 : 518

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.cub.2015.12.060
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scientific name	Gerontoformica Nel and Perrault
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Gerontoformica Nel and Perrault, 2004 : pg. 24. Type species: G. cretacica Nel and Perrault , by original designation. In Albian-aged amber from France.

Sphecomyrmodes Grimaldi and Engel, 2005 : pg. 5. Type species: Sphecomyrmodes orientalis , by original designation. In Burmese amber. New synonymy.

Diagnosis (Emended). Distinguished from other Cretaceous genera by an uninterrupted row of peg-like denticles on the anterior margin of the clypeus; mandibles falcate, with one large apical tooth and one preapical tooth. The revised diagnosis and new generic synonymy is based on re-examination by one author (P.B.) of the type specimen, officially housed at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris. Species formerly placed in Sphecomyrmodes [ 16, 20, 25] are now placed in Gerontoformica .