Haidomyrmex, Dlussky, 1996

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, Systematic Entomology 42, pp. 837-846 : 838

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1111/syen.12253

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:40D636A3-4D88-470A-BC5B-85ABFD1A49E2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6004706

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Haidomyrmex
status

 

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)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

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