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Cephalotes olmecus

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Short description: Extinct species of ant

Cephalotes olmecus
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Genus: Cephalotes
Species:
†C. olmecus
Binomial name
†Cephalotes olmecus
de Andrade, 1999

Cephalotes olmecus is an extinct species of arboreal ant of the genus Cephalotes known only from Mexican amber inclusions.[1]

Taxonomy

Cephalotes olmecus was first described in 1999 from two Chiapas amber fossil inclusions of respectively a worker and a dwarf soldier ant.[2] Maria de Andrade, who described the species, placed C. olmecus in the grandinosus clade in which it forms a subclade with fossil species Cephalotes maya and extant species Cephalotes foliaceus.[2]

The specific epithet olmecus is in reference to the Olmecs of Mexico.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Fossilworks: Cephalotes olmecus". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=256724. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Andrade, Maria L. de; Baroni Urbani, Cesare (1999). "Diversity and adaptation in the ant genus Cephalotes, past and present (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde) 271: 425-429, 853. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30261633. Retrieved 6 January 2024. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5063435 entry




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