Haidoterminus cippus
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| †Haidoterminus cippus Temporal range: Campanian, Late Cretaceous Foremost Formation amber, Alberta, Canada | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | †Haidomyrmecinae |
| Genus: | Haidoterminus |
| Species: | †H. cippus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Haidoterminus cippus McKellar, Glasier & Engel, 2013
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Contents
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Grassy Lake amber (Foremost Formation amber, Alberta, Canada (Campanian, Late Cretaceous)).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's New General Catalogue, a catalogue of the world's ants.
- †cippus. Haidoterminus cippus McKellar, Glasier & Engel, 2013: 458, figs. 1-3 (w.) CANADIAN AMBER (Cretaceous).
- See also: Perrichot, Wang & Barden, 2020.
Type Material
- Holotype, worker, Grassy Lake amber, Alberta (Late Cretaceous, Campanian, Foremost Formation (ca. 79 Ma)), Canada, UASM 332546, University of Alberta Strickland Entomology Museum, Edmonton, Canada.
Description
References
- McKellar, R. C.; Glasier, J. R. N.; Engel, M. S. 2013. A new trap-jawed ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Haidomyrmecini) from Canadian Late Cretaceous amber. Canadian Entomologist 145:454-465.
- 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).
