Boltonimecia

Boltonimecia
Temporal range: Campanian
B. canadensis holotype worker
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Zigrasimeciinae
Genus: Boltonimecia
Borysenko, 2017
Species:
B. canadensis
Binomial name
Boltonimecia canadensis
(Wilson, 1985)
Synonyms
  • Sphecomyrma canadensis

Boltonimecia is an extinct genus of ant in the formicid subfamily Zigrasimeciinae. The genus contains a single described species, Boltonimecia canadensis, and is known from a single Late Cretaceous fossil which was found in Canada. The type species was originally described as a species of the extinct genus Sphecomyrma under the combination Sphecomyrma canadensis.