Biology:Cephalotes olmecus
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Short description: Extinct species of ant
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Scientific classification 
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| 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
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
- ↑ "Fossilworks: Cephalotes olmecus". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=256724.
- ↑ 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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