Haidomyrmex

†Haidomyrmex 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:	†Haidomyrmex Dlussky, 1996
Type species
†Haidomyrmex cerberus
Diversity
4 fossil species (Species Checklist)

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  Haidomyrmex. Photo by Phil Barden.

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.

• †HAIDOMYRMEX [†Haidomyrmecinae]
  • †Haidomyrmex Dlussky, 1996: 84. Type-species: †Haidomyrmex cerberus, by original desgination.

Taxonomic history

• †Haidomyrmex in †Sphecomyrminae: Dlussky, 1996: 84; Grimaldi, et al. 1997: 7.
• †Haidomyrmex in †Sphecomyrminae, †Haidomyrmecini: Bolton, 2003: 74; Borysenko, 2017: 18.
• †Haidomyrmex as genus: all authors.
• †Haidomyrmex references: Grimaldi, et al. 1997: 24 (notes); Engel & Grimaldi, 2005: 11 (diagnosis, comments); Barden & Grimaldi, 2012: 4 (diagnosis).
• †Haidomyrmex in †Haidomyrmecinae: Perrichot, Wang & Barden, 2020: 3.

References

• Barden, P. & Grimaldi, D. 2012. Rediscovery of the bizarre Cretaceous ant Haidomyrmex Dlussky (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with two new species. American Museum Novitates 3755, 1-16.
• Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 261, Haidomyrmex in Sphecomyrminae, Haidomyrmecini; taxonomic synopsis)
• 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).
• 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).
• Cao, H., Perrichot, V., Shih, C., Ren, D., Gao, T.-P. 2019. A revision of Haidomyrmex cerberus Dlussky (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Sphecomyrminae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 106:104226 (doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104226).
• Dlussky, G. M. 1996a. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Burmese amber. Paleontol. Zh. 1996(3 3: 83-89 (page 84, Haidomyrmex as genus; Haidomyrmex in Sphecomyrminae)
• Dlussky, G. M. 1996a. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Burmese amber. Paleontol. Zh. 1996(3 3: 83-89 (page 84, Haidomyrmex in Sphecomyrminae)
• 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 7, Haidomyrmex in Sphecomyrminae)
• Larabee, F.J., Suarez, A.V. 2014. The evolution and functional morphology of trap-jaw ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 20: 25-36.
• 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).