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Cephalotes serratus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Exocryptocerus serratus was named by Vierbergen and Scheven (1995). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Scheven coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

It was recombined as Cephalotes serratus by de Andrade and Baroni Urbani (1999) and Fernández and Sendoya (2004).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1995Exocryptocerus serratus Vierbergen and Scheven p. 159 figs. 1a-d
1995Exocryptocerus elevatus Vierbergen and Scheven p. 160 figs. 2a-d
1995Exocryptocerus truncatus Vierbergen and Scheven p. 161 figs. 3a-d
1999Cephalotes serratus de Andrade and Baroni Urbani p. 522 figs. 3-6, 17A,B, 244, 245
2004Cephalotes serratus Fernández and Sendoya p. 50

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
subfamilyMyrmicinae
tribeAttiniSmith 1858
genusCephalotes
speciesserratus()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Cephalotes serratus Vierbergen and Scheven 1995
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Invalid names: Exocryptocerus elevatus Vierbergen and Scheven 1995 [synonym], Exocryptocerus truncatus Vierbergen and Scheven 1995 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Cephalotes serratus (122472 122474 124281) Exocryptocerus serratus (138700) Exocryptocerus serratus, Exocryptocerus elevatus, Exocryptocerus truncatus (type locality: 124846)