Baikuris casei

†Baikuris casei Temporal range: Turonian, Late Cretaceous K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl ↓ Raritan (New Jersey) amber, New Jersey, United States
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Uncertain
Genus:	Baikuris
Species:	†B. casei
Binomial name
†Baikuris casei Grimaldi, Agosti & Carpenter, 1997

Distribution

This taxon was described from Raritan (New Jersey) amber, New Jersey, United States (Turonian, Late Cretaceous).

Nomenclature

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

• †casei. †Baikuris casei Grimaldi, Agosti & Carpenter, 1997: 15, figs. 1c, 5a-d, 12b (m.) NEW JERSEY AMBER (U.S.A.: New Jersey, Cretaceous).
  • [Note: genus misspelled as Baikurus by Grimaldi, Agosti & Carpenter, 1997: 15.]
  • Status as species: Perrichot, 2015: 588; Barden, 2017: 2.

References

• Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
• 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).
• Cantone, S., Von Zuben, C.J. 2019. The hindwings of ants: A phylogenetic analysis. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 2019, 1–11 (doi:10.1155/2019/7929717).
• Grimaldi, D.; Agosti, D.; Carpenter, J. M. 1997. New and rediscovered primitive ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey, and their phylogenetic relationships. American Museum Novitates 3208: 1-43. (page 15, figs. 1c, 5a-d, 12b male described)
• Zhuang, Y., Perrichot, V., Li, J., Zhuo, D., Liu, Y., Wang, B., Zhang, Q., Boudinot, B.E. 2025. Systematics and early evolution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): the first male and worker-queen association for †Gerontoformica. Myrmecological News 35: 89-98 (doi:10.25849/MYRMECOL.NEWS_035:089).