Haidoterminus cippus

†Haidoterminus cippus 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
Species:	†H. cippus
Binomial name
†Haidoterminus cippus McKellar, Glasier & Engel, 2013

Distribution

This taxon was described from Grassy Lake amber (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.

• †cippus. Haidoterminus cippus McKellar, Glasier & Engel, 2013: 458, figs. 1-3 (w.) CANADIAN AMBER (Cretaceous).
  • See also: Perrichot, Wang & Barden, 2020.

Type Material

• Holotype, worker, Grassy Lake amber, Alberta (Late Cretaceous, Campanian, Foremost Formation (ca. 79 Ma)), Canada, UASM 332546, University of Alberta Strickland Entomology Museum, Edmonton, Canada.

References

• 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).
• 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).