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Haidomyrmodes mammuthus
| †Haidomyrmodes mammuthus Temporal range: Late Albian to Early Cenomanian, Cretaceous Charentese amber, Aquitaine Basin, France | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | †Haidomyrmecinae |
| Genus: | Haidomyrmodes |
| Species: | †H. mammuthus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Haidomyrmodes mammuthus Perrichot, Nel, Néraudeau, Lacau & Guot, 2008
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Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Charentese amber, Aquitaine Basin, France (Late Albian to Early Cenomanian, Cretaceous).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †mammuthus. Haidomyrmodes mammuthus Perrichot, Nel, et al. 2008: 92, figs. 1, 2 (w.q.) FRENCH AMBER (Cretaceous).
- See also: Perrichot, Wang & Barden, 2020.
Description
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. 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).
- 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).