Haidoterminus cippus

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Haidoterminus cippus
Temporal range: Campanian, Late Cretaceous Foremost Formation amber, Alberta, Canada
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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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 Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • 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

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