Haidomyrmodes

†Haidomyrmodes Temporal range: Late Albian to Early Cenomanian, Cretaceous K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Charentese amber, Aquitaine Basin, France
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	†Haidomyrmecinae
Genus:	†Haidomyrmodes Perrichot, Nel, Néraudeau, Lacau & Guyot, 2008
Type species
†Haidomyrmodes mammuthus
Diversity
1 fossil species (Species Checklist)

Distribution

This taxon is known from Charentese amber, Aquitaine Basin, France (Late Albian to Early Cenomanian, Cretaceous).

Nomenclature

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

• †HAIDOMYRMODES [†Haidomyrmecinae]
  • †Haidomyrmodes Perrichot, Nel, Néraudeau, Lacau & Guyot, 2008: 92. Type-species: †Haidomyrmodes mammuthus, by original designation.

Taxonomic history

• †Haidomyrmodes in †Sphecomyrminae, †Haidomyrmecini: Perrichot, et al. 2008: 92; Borysenko, 2017: 18.
• †Haidomyrmodes as genus: all authors.
• †Haidomyrmodes 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.
• 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).
• Perrichot, V., Nel, A., Néraudeau, D., Lacau, S. & Guyot, T. 2008. New fossil ants in French Cretaceous amber. Naturwissenschaften 95: 91-97 (doi:10.1007/s00114-007-0302-7).
• 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).