Linguamyrmex vladi Barden and Grimaldi 2017 (hell ant)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: P. Barden and D. A. Grimaldi. 2017. Taxonomic names, in A new genus of hell ants from the Cretaceous (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Haidomyrmecini) with a novel head structure. Systematic Entomology 42:837-846

Belongs to Linguamyrmex according to B. E. Boudinot et al. 2020

See also Barden and Grimaldi 2017

Sister taxa: Linguamyrmex brevicornis, Linguamyrmex rhinocerus

Type specimen: AMNH BuPH-01, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection)

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