Cephalotes olmecus

Short description: Extinct species of ant

Cephalotes olmecus

Scientific classification
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.

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