Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: F. Varela-Hernández and F. Riquelme. 2021. A new ant species of the genus Pheidole Westwood, 1839 from Miocene Mexican amber. Southwestern Entomologist 46:75-82
Belongs to Pheidole according to F. Varela-Hernández and F. Riquelme 2021
Sister taxa: Pheidole anticua, Pheidole cordata, Pheidole pallidula, Pheidole plagiaria, Pheidole primigenia, Pheidole rasnitsyni, Pheidole tertiaria, Pheidole tethepa
Type specimen: CPAL.401, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is La Pimienta, Simojovel (Mexican amber, CPAL-UAEM collection), which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at La Pimienta, Simojovel (Mexican amber, CPAL-UAEM collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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