Haidoterminus

†Haidoterminus Temporal range: Campanian, Late Cretaceous K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Foremost Formation amber, Alberta, Canada
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	†Haidomyrmecinae
Genus:	†Haidoterminus McKellar, Glasier & Engel, 2013
Type species
†Haidoterminus cippus
Diversity
1 fossil species (Species Checklist)

Distribution

This taxon is known from Foremost Formation amber, Alberta, Canada (Campanian, Late Cretaceous).

Nomenclature

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

• †HAIDOTERMINUS [†Haidomyrmecinae]
  • †Haidoterminus McKellar, Glasier & Engel, 2013: 457. Type-species: †Haidoterminus cippus, by original designation.

Taxonomic history

• †Haidoterminus in †Sphecomyrminae, †Haidomyrmecini: McKellar, et al. 2013b: 457; Borysenko, 2017: 18.
• †Haidoterminus as genus: all authors.
• †Haidoterminus 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).
• McKellar, R. C.; Glasier, J. R. N.; Engel, M. S. 2013. A new trap-jawed ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Haidomyrmecini) from Canadian Late Cretaceous amber. Canadian Entomologist 145:454-465.
• 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).
• Sosiak, C., Cockx, P., Suarez, P.A., McKellar, R., Barden, P. 2024. Prolonged faunal turnover in earliest ants revealed by North American Cretaceous amber. Current Biology (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.02.058).