Haidomyrmex cerberus

†Haidomyrmex cerberus 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
Species:	†H. cerberus
Binomial name
†Haidomyrmex cerberus Dlussky, 1996

Photo Gallery

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  Haidomyrmex cerberus, alate queen specimen CNU-HYM-MA2015011. A, photo of right lateral habitus. B, line drawing of habitus. C, photo of head in lateral view. D, photo of mesosoma in lateral view. E, photo of right forewing venation. F, line drawing of right forewing and right hind wing. Scale bars: 1 mm (A, B); 0.25 mm (C–F) (Guo, Y., Shih, C. et al. 2021, Fig. 1).
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  Haidomyrmex cerberus, dealate queen specimen CNU-HYM-MA2015010. A, photo of right lateral habitus. B, line drawing of habitus. Scale bars: 1 mm (Guo, Y., Shih, C. et al. 2021, Fig. 2).
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  Haidomyrmex cerberus, specimens CNU-HYM-MA2015010 (A–C) and CNU-HYM-MA2015011 (D–F). A, photo of left lateral habitus. B, photo of protibial apex and associated tarsus. C, photo of petiole in lateral view. D, photo of clypeal lobe in lateral view. E, photo of petiole in lateral view. F, photo of left lateral habitus. Scale bars: 1 mm (A, F); 0.25 mm (B–E) (Guo, Y., Shih, C. et al. 2021, Fig. 3).

Identification

Probable a trapjaw-ant with curved mandibles and setae coated clypeus (Dlussky, 1996).

Distribution

This taxon was described 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.

• †cerberus. †Haidomyrmex cerberus Dlussky, 1996: 86, fig. 1 (w.) MYANMAR (Burmese amber).
  • See also: Engel & Grimaldi, 2005: 11; Perrichot, Wang & Barden, 2020.

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 (doi:10.1206/3755.2).
• Barden, P. & Grimaldi, D. 2013. A new genus of highly specialized ants in Cretaceous Burmese Amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3681, 405-412 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3681.4.5).
• 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).
• 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 86, fig. 1 worker described)
• Engel, M.S., Grimaldi, D.A. 2005. Primitive new ants in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar, New Jersey, and Canada (Hymenoptrea: Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 3485: 1-24 (doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2005)485[0001:PNAICA2.0.CO;2]).
• Guo, Y., Shih, C., Zhuo, D., Ren, D., Zhao, Y., Gao, T. 2021. The first queen-worker association for Cretaceous Formicidae: the winged caste of Haidomyrmex cerberus. ZooKeys 1048, 69–78 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1048.66920).
• Perfilieva, K.S. 2023. Cretaceous-Burmese-amber ants: Morphological features and community structure. Biology Bulletin Reviews 131, 38–54 (doi:10.1134/s207908642301005x).
• 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).