Global InformationFormicodiplogaster information
| Formicodiplogaster Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Class: | Chromadorea |
| Order: | Rhabditida |
| Family: | Diplogasteridae |
| Genus: | †Formicodiplogaster Poinar, 2011 |
| Species: | †F. myrmenema
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| Binomial name | |
| †Formicodiplogaster myrmenema Poinar, 2011
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Formicodiplogaster is an extinct form genus of nematodes in the family Diplogasteridae which currently includes a single described species Formicodiplogaster myrmenema. The species is known from early Miocene[1] fossils found on Hispaniola. F. myrmenema has been preserved in association with Azteca alpha, one of only two known fossil species in the ant genus Azteca.[2][3]
- ^ Poinar, G.; Heiss, E. (2011). "New Termitaphididae and Aradidae (Hemiptera) in Mexican and Dominican amber" (PDF). Palaeodiversity. 4: 51–62.
- ^ Poinar, G.O. (2011). "The Evolutionary History of Nematodes: As Revealed in Stone, Amber and Mummies". Nematology Monographs and Perspectives Pages. 9: 91–93, 239–240, 324–325.
- ^ Poinar, G.O. (2012). "Nematode Parasites and Associates of Ants: Past and Present". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 2012: 1–13. doi:10.1155/2012/192017.