Baikuris mandibularis

†Baikuris mandibularis Temporal range: provisionally Campanian–Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl ↓ Baikura, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Uncertain
Genus:	Baikuris
Species:	†B. mandibularis
Binomial name
†Baikuris mandibularis Dlussky, 1987

Distribution

This taxon was described from Baikura, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia (provisionally Campanian–Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous).

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• †mandibularis. †Baikuris mandibularis Dlussky, 1987: 134, fig. 2 (m.) TAIMYR AMBER (Russia: Siberia, Taimyr Peninsula, Cretaceous).
  • Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 80; Grimaldi, Agosti & Carpenter, 1997: 6; Perrichot, 2015: 588; Barden, 2017: 2.

References

• Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
• Boudinot, B.E., Perrichot, V., Chaul, J.C.M. 2020. †Camelosphecia gen. nov., lost ant-wasp intermediates from the mid-Cretaceous (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea). ZooKeys 1005, 21–55 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1005.57629).
• Cantone, S., Von Zuben, C.J. 2019. The hindwings of ants: A phylogenetic analysis. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 2019, 1–11 (doi:10.1155/2019/7929717).
• Dlussky, G. M. 1987. New Formicoidea (Hymenoptera) of the Upper Cretaceous. Paleontol. Zh. 1987(1 1: 131-135 (page 134, fig. 2 male described)
• Perfilieva, K.S. 2011. New data on the wing morphology of the Cretaceous Sphecomyrminae ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Paleontological Journal 45: 275–283.
• Sosiak, C., Cockx, P., Suarez, P.A., McKellar, R., Barden, P. 2024. Prolonged faunal turnover in earliest ants revealed by North American Cretaceous amber. Current Biology (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.02.058).