Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: M. L. de Andrade. 1999. Taxonomic names, in Diversity and adaptation in the ant genus Cephalotes, past and present. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 271

Belongs to Cephalotes according to F. Fernández and S. Sendoya 2004

See also de Andrade 1999

Sister taxa: 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

Type specimen: SMNS Mx-391, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Mexican amber (SMNS collection), which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in the Mazantic Shale Formation of Mexico.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Mexican amber (SMNS collection)

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