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Cephalotes obscurus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Zacryptocerus obscurus was named by Vierbergen and Scheven (1995). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican Amber (MCZ collection), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

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

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1995Zacryptocerus obscurus Vierbergen and Scheven p. 164 fig. 8
1999Cephalotes obscurus de Andrade and Baroni Urbani p. 542 figs. 16C,D, 254, 255
2004Cephalotes obscurus Fernández and Sendoya p. 49

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
subfamilyMyrmicinae
tribeAttiniSmith 1858
genusCephalotes
speciesobscurus()

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 obscurus Vierbergen and Scheven 1995
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available