Cephalotes olmecus
Appearance
Cephalotes olmecus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Genus: | Cephalotes |
Species: | †C. olmecus
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Binomial name | |
†Cephalotes olmecus de Andrade, 1999
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Cephalotes olmecus is an extinct species of arboreal ant of the genus Cephalotes known only from Mexican amber inclusions.[1]
Taxonomy
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "Fossilworks: Cephalotes olmecus". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^ a b c 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. 271. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde: 425–429, 853. Retrieved 6 January 2024.