A new genus of hell ants from the Cretaceous (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Haidomyrmecini) with a novel head structure
Author
Phillip Barden
Author
Hollister W. Herhold
Author
David A. Grimaldi
text
Systematic Entomology
2017
42
837
846
journal article
32159
10.1111/syen.12253
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887095
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:40D636A3-4D88-470A-BC5B-85ABFD1A49E2
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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
)