†Aquilomyrmex huangi Perrichot et al. 2020 (hell ant)
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Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: V. Perrichot, B. Wang, and P. Barden. 2020. New remarkable hell ants (Formicidae: Haidomyrmecinae stat. nov.) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 109(104381)
Belongs to Aquilomyrmex according to B. E. Boudinot et al. 2020
See also Perrichot et al. 2020
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: NIGP172000, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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