. Ants; their structure, development and behavior. FIG. 99. (Ecophylla brischkei, anarboreal Camponotine ant from the BalticAmber. (Mayr.) FIG. 100. Worker of Gesomyrmexhtrrnesi, a large-eyed, arboreal Campono-tine ant from the Baltic Amber. (Mayr.) to the genus Macromischa, because they lack spurs on the middle andhind tibiae, do not belong to this genus, which is exclusively neotropicaland largely West Indian, but must be placed in a new genus, whichmay be called Nothomyrmica. Much more like the true Macromischathan any of Mayrs species, especially in the structure of the thoraxand petiole,
. Ants; their structure, development and behavior. FIG. 99. (Ecophylla brischkei, anarboreal Camponotine ant from the BalticAmber. (Mayr.) FIG. 100. Worker of Gesomyrmexhtrrnesi, a large-eyed, arboreal Campono-tine ant from the Baltic Amber. (Mayr.) to the genus Macromischa, because they lack spurs on the middle andhind tibiae, do not belong to this genus, which is exclusively neotropicaland largely West Indian, but must be placed in a new genus, whichmay be called Nothomyrmica. Much more like the true Macromischathan any of Mayrs species, especially in the structure of the thoraxand petiole, is the extraordinary ant which I shall call (Fig. 94). This and many other amber Myrmicinae are asexquisitely sculptured as any of our modern species- Propodoniynna(Fig. 93) from the Baltic and Acrostigma from the Sicilian amber arerelated to the paleotropical Podomyrma and Atopomyrmex, but aresimpler and more primitive in their structure. 3. DoHchoderincz.—This subfamily is represented by a number of 7- JNTS. interesting1
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