Everything about Sphecomyrma Freyi totally explained
Sphecomyrma freyi is an extinct species of
ant which inhabited the northern hemisphere of the supercontinent
Laurasia approximately 80
mya in the
Cretaceous. It is one of the earliest known species of ant.
In 1966 a specimen of Sphecomyrma freyi was found embedded in amber which had been exposed in the cliffs of
Cliffwood, New Jersey by Mr Edmund Frey and his wife. In 1967
E. O. Wilson, F M 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, it was wingless and possessed a
petiole which was ant-like in form. The
mandible was short and wasp-like with only two teeth, the
gaster constricted and the middle and hind legs had double
tibial spurs, wasp-like features. The
antennae were, in form, midway between the wasps and ants, having a short first segment but a long flexible
funiculus.
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