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Haidomyrmex Dlussky 1996
Description
• Haidomyrmex cerberus Dlussky
– the first hell ant was named 20 years ago by the prolific paleomyrmecologist Gennady Dlussky (Dlussky, 1996). Haidomyrmex cerberus was described from a single partial worker specimen, providing the basis for what are now tribal synapomorphies for the Haidomyrmecini, established by Bolton (2003) and revised by Perrichot et al. (2016): unusual L-shaped mandibles and a bulging clypeus possessing a clypeal brush comprising dense, stout setae.
Locality: Burmese amber, ~ 98.8 Ma, Kachin State, Myanmar (Shi et al., 2012)
Notes
Published as part of Phillip Barden, Hollister W. Herhold & David A. Grimaldi, 2017, A new genus of hell ants from the Cretaceous (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Haidomyrmecini) with a novel head structure, pp. 837-846 in Systematic Entomology 42 on page 838, DOI: 10.1111/syen.12253, http://zenodo.org/record/887095
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Haidomyrmex
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Dlussky
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Haidomyrmex Dlussky, 1996 sec. Barden, Herhold & Grimaldi, 2017
References
- Dlussky, G. M. (1996) Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Burmese amber. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 30, 449 - 454.
- Bolton, B. (2003) Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 71, 1 - 370.
- Perrichot, V., Wang, B. & Engel, M. S. (2016) Extreme morphogenesis and ecological specialization among Cretaceous basal ants. Current Biology, 26, 1468 - 1472.
- Shi, G., Grimaldi, D. A., Harlow, G. E. et al. (2012) Age constraint on Burmese amber based on U - Pb dating of zircons. Cretaceous Research, 37, 155 - 163.