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Cephalotes jansei

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Exocryptocerus jansei 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 jansei by de Andrade and Baroni Urbani (1999) and Fernández and Sendoya (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1995Exocryptocerus jansei Vierbergen and Scheven p. 161 figs. 4a-d
1999Cephalotes jansei de Andrade and Baroni Urbani p. 526 figs. 11A,B,C, 246
2004Cephalotes jansei Fernández and Sendoya p. 49

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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
speciesjansei()

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 jansei Vierbergen and Scheven 1995
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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 (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Cephalotes jansei (122472) Exocryptocerus jansei (21978 type locality: 124846)