Dilobops
†Dilobops Temporal range: Early Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous Burmese amber, Kachin State, Myanmar | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | †Haidomyrmecinae |
Genus: | †Dilobops Lattke & Melo, 2020 |
Type species | |
†Dilobops bidentata | |
Diversity | |
1 fossil species (Species Checklist) |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Burmese amber, Kachin State, Myanmar (Early Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †DILOBOPS [†Haidomyrmecinae]
- †Dilobops Lattke & Melo, 2020: 5. Type-species: †Dilobops bidentata, by original desgination.
References
- 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).
- Boudinot, B.E., Richter, A., Katzke, J., Chaul, J.C.M., Keller, R.A., Economo, E.P., Beutel, R.G., Yamamoto, S. 2022. Evidence for the evolution of eusociality in stem ants and a systematic revision of †Gerontoformica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society XX:1-35 (doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab097/6523228).
- Lattke, J.E., Melo, G.A.R. 2020. New haidomyrmecine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 114, 104502 (doi:10.1016/J.CRETRES.2020.104502).