A new genus of hell ants from the Cretaceous (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Haidomyrmecini) with a novel head structure
Phillip Barden
Hollister W. Herhold
David A. Grimaldi
Systematic Entomology
2017
42
837
846
Dlussky
1996
[187,322,393,414]
Insecta
Formicidae
Haidomyrmex
GBIF
Animalia
Hymenoptera
1
838
Arthropoda
genus
– the first hell ant was named 20 years ago by the prolific paleomyrmecologist Gennady Dlussky (Dlussky, 1996). Haidomyrmexcerberuswas 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)