Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Synonyms: Exocryptocerus Vierbergen and Scheven 1995, Zacryptocerus Ashmead 1905
Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième 1-467
Parent taxon: Attini according to P. S. Ward et al. 2015
See also Bolton 2003, Bolton 2012, de Andrade and Baroni Urbani 1999, Fernández and Sendoya 2004, Latreille 1802 and Solórzano Kraemer 2007
Sister taxa: Acanthognathus, Attina, Pheidole, Strumigenys
Subtaxa: Cephalotes alveolatus Cephalotes bloosi Cephalotes brevispineus Cephalotes caribicus Cephalotes dieteri Cephalotes hispaniolicus Cephalotes integerrimus Cephalotes jansei Cephalotes maya Cephalotes obscurus Cephalotes olmecus Cephalotes poinari Cephalotes resinae Cephalotes serratus Cephalotes squamosus Cephalotes sucinus Cephalotes taino Cephalotes ventriosus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Colombia (2 collections), the Dominican Republic (1)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (8), Mexico (2)
Total: 13 collections including 47 occurrences
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