Ceratomyrmex

†Ceratomyrmex Temporal range: Early Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Burmese amber, Kachin State, Myanmar
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	†Haidomyrmecinae
Genus:	†Ceratomyrmex Perrichot, Wang, B. & Engel, 2016
Type species
†Ceratomyrmex ellenbergeri
Diversity
2 fossil species (Species Checklist)

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Distribution

This taxon is known from Burmese amber, Kachin State, Myanmar (Early Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous).

Nomenclature

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

• †CERATOMYRMEX [†Haidomyrmecinae]
  • †Ceratomyrmex Perrichot, Wang & Engel, 2016: 1468. Type-species: †Ceratomyrmex ellenbergeri, by original desgination.

Taxonomic history

• †Ceratomyrmex in †Sphecomyrminae, †Haidomyrmecini: Perrichot, Wang & Engel, 2016: 1468; Borysenko, 2017: 18.
• †Ceratomyrmex as genus: Borysenko, 2017: 18.
• †Ceratomyrmex in †Haidomyrmecinae: Perrichot, Wang & Barden, 2020: 3.

References

• Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
• Barden, P., Engel, M.S. 2020. Fossil social insects. Encyclopedia of Social Insects, Springer, Cham (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_45-1).
• Borysenko, L.H. 2017. Description of a new genus of primitive ants from Canadian amber, with the study of relationships between stem- and crown-group ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insecta Mundi 570: 1–57.
• 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).
• [[Media:Perrichot, V., Wang, B., Engel, M.S. 2016. Extreme morphogenesis and ecological specialization among Cretaceous basal ants.pdf|Perrichot, V., Wang, B. & Engel, M.S. 2016. Extreme morphogenesis and ecological specialization among Cretaceous basal ants. Current Biology 26:1468-1472 (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.0*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).

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