Haidomyrmecinae
| Haidomyrmecinae Temporal range:
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| Haidomyrmex zigrasi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | †Haidomyrmecinae Bolton, 2003 |
| Type genus | |
| †Haidomyrmex | |
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Haidomyrmecinae, occasionally called Hell ants, are an extinct subfamily of ants in family Formicidae known from a series of Cretaceous fossils found in ambers of North America, Europe, and Asia. The subfamily was first proposed in 2003, but had been subsequently treated as the tribe Haidomyrmecini and placed in the extinct ant subfamily Sphecomyrminae. Reevaluation of Haidomyrmecini in 2020 lead to the elevation of the group back to subfamily. The family contains the nine genera and thirteen species.[1]
Genera
Along with the type genus Haidomyrmex, the subfamily contains nine genera and thirteen species.
- Aquilomyrmex Perrichot et al., 2020
- A. huangi Perrichot et al., 2020
- Ceratomyrmex Perrichot, Wang & Engel, 2016
- C. ellenbergeri Perrichot, Wang & Engel, 2016
- Chonidris Perrichot et al., 2020
- C. insolita Perrichot et al., 2020
- Dhagnathos Perrichot et al., 2020
- D. autokrator Perrichot et al., 2020
- Haidomyrmex Dlussky, 1996
- H. cerberus Dlussky, 1996
- H. scimitarus Barden & Grimaldi, 2012
- H. zigrasi Barden & Grimaldi, 2012
- Haidomyrmodes Perrichot et al., 2008
- H. mammuthus Perrichot et al., 2008
- Haidoterminus McKellar, Glasier & Engel, 2013
- H. cippus McKellar, Glasier & Engel, 2013
- Linguamyrmex Barden & Grimaldi, 2017
- L. brevicornis Perrichot et al., 2020
- L. rhinocerus Miao & Wang, 2019
- L. vladi Barden & Grimaldi, 2017
- Protoceratomyrmex Perrichot et al., 2020
- P. revelatus Perrichot et al., 2020
References
- ^ Perrichot, V.; Wang, B.; Barden, P. (2020). "New remarkable hell ants (Formicidae: Haidomyrmecinae stat. nov.) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar" (PDF). Cretaceous Research. 109: 104381. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104381.
External links
- The Reign of the Hell Ants PBS Eons, Jan 21, 2021