Pheidole anticua

†Pheidole anticua Temporal range: Burdigalian, Early Miocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Dominican amber, Dominican Republic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Pheidole
Species:	†P. anticua
Binomial name
†Pheidole anticua Casadei-Ferreira, Chaul & Feitosa, 2019

Distribution

This taxon was described from Dominican amber, Dominican Republic (Burdigalian, Early Miocene).

Nomenclature

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

• †anticua. †Pheidole anticua Casadei-Ferreira, Chaul & Feitosa, 2019: 118, figs. 1, 2 (w.) DOMINICAN AMBER (Miocene).

Type Material

• Holotype, major worker, “La Toca” mine, Dominican Amber (Miocene), ANTWEB1038178, Coleção Entomológica Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure.

AntWeb.org: Originally a 26 x 14 x 14 mm orange Dominican amber piece with a major Pheidole in the very middle of the stone and a pscopteran as a synclusion. The piece was cut for better visualisation and the ant is now alone inside a small 9 x 4 x 4.5 mm roughly pyramidal fragment. It is glued in a perspex card and pinned. Bought from Ebay seller “ambergalleryboutique1”. (Note by J.Chaul, 2017).

References

• Casadei-Ferreira, A., Chaul, J.C.M., Feitosa, R.M. 2019. A new species of Pheidole (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Dominican amber with a review of the fossil records for the genus. ZooKeys 866: 117–125 (DOI 10.3897/zookeys.866.35756).
• Varela-Hernández, F., Flores-Zapoteco, D. 2024. New Miocene Mexican amber ant (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) of the genus Pheidole Westwood, 1839. Historical Biology, pp. 1–6 (doi:10.1080/08912963.2024.2312403).
• Varela-Hernández, F., Riquelme, F. 2024. Pheidole praehistorica sp. nov., a new addition to spiny ants of the genus Pheidole Westwood, 1839 (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Oligo–Miocene Mexican amber. European Journal of Taxonomy 968: 86-97 (doi:10.5852/ejt.2024.968.2719).