Protoceratomyrmex Perrichot et al. 2020 (hell ant)

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)

Parent taxon: Haidomyrmecinae according to B. E. Boudinot et al. 2020

See also Perrichot et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Aquilomyrmex, Ceratomyrmex, Chonidris, Dhagnathos, Dilobops, Haidomyrmex, Haidomyrmodes, Haidoterminus, Linguamyrmex, Vulcanidris

Subtaxa: Protoceratomyrmex revelatus

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Type: Protoceratomyrmex revelatus

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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