Pheidole primigenia
†Pheidole primigenia Temporal range: Burdigalian, Early Miocene Dominican amber, Dominican Republic | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Attini |
Genus: | Pheidole |
Species: | †P. primigenia |
Binomial name | |
†Pheidole primigenia Baroni Urbani, 1995 |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Dominican amber, Dominican Republic (Burdigalian, Early Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †primigenia. †Pheidole primigenia Baroni Urbani, 1995: 9, figs. 1-3, 5-7 (w.) DOMINICAN AMBER (Miocene).
Holotype: Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde Stuttgart, no. DO-4440.
Description
References
- Baroni Urbani, C. 1995. Invasion and extinction in the West Indian ant fauna revisited: the example of Pheidole (Amber Collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. VIII: Myrmicinae, partim). Stuttg. Beitr. Naturkd. Ser. B (Geol. Paläontol.) 222: 1-12 (page 9, figs. 1-3, 5-7 worker described)
- Casadei-Ferreira, A., Chaul, J.C.M., Feitosa, R.M. 2019. A new species of Pheidole (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Dominican amber with a review of the fossil records for the genus. ZooKeys 866: 117–125 (DOI 10.3897/zookeys.866.35756).
- Varela-Hernández, F., Flores-Zapoteco, D. 2024. New Miocene Mexican amber ant (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) of the genus Pheidole Westwood, 1839. Historical Biology, pp. 1–6 (doi:10.1080/08912963.2024.2312403).