Haidomyrmex zigrasi
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| †Haidomyrmex zigrasi Temporal range: Early Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous Burmese amber, Kachin Province, Myanmar | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | †Haidomyrmecinae |
| Genus: | Haidomyrmex |
| Species: | †H. zigrasi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Haidomyrmex zigrasi Barden & Grimaldi, 2012 | |
Identification
Similar to Haidomyrmex cerberus, mandibles parallel at tips (Barden and Grimaldi, 2012).
Distribution
This taxon was described from Burmese amber, Kachin Province, Myanmar (Early Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †zigrasi. †Haidomyrmex zigrasi Barden & Grimaldi, 2012: 11, figs. 1, 4 (w.) MYANMAR (Burmese amber).
- See also: Perrichot, Wang & Barden, 2020.
Description
References
- Barden, P.; Grimaldi, D. 2012. Rediscovery of the bizarre Cretaceous ant Haidomyrmex Dlussky (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with two new species. American Museum Novitates 3755:1-16 (doi:10.1206/3755.2).
- Barden, P. & Grimaldi, D. 2013. A new genus of highly specialized ants in Cretaceous Burmese Amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3681, 405-412 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3681.4.5 ).
- Perrichot, V., Wang, B., Barden, P. 2020. New remarkable hell ants (Formicidae: Haidomyrmecinae stat. nov.) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 109, 104381 (doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104381).
