A new species of Pheidole (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Dominican amber with a review of the fossil records for the genus

Abstract. Pheidole comprises approximately 1,000 extant species distributed worldwide, being particularly diverse in the New World. In addition to its high diversity and ecological prevalence, the genus is also characterized by the predominantly intraspecific dimorphism, with major and minor workers...

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Autores principales: Casadei-Ferreira, Alexandre, Chaul, Julio C.M., Feitosa, Rodrigo M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6669217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31388325
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.866.35756
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author Casadei-Ferreira, Alexandre
Chaul, Julio C.M.
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description Abstract. Pheidole comprises approximately 1,000 extant species distributed worldwide, being particularly diverse in the New World. In addition to its high diversity and ecological prevalence, the genus is also characterized by the predominantly intraspecific dimorphism, with major and minor workers. Currently, five fossil species are known, all of which are represented only by minor workers. A new species, †Pheidoleanticuasp. nov., is described from Dominican amber, based on a major worker. Additionally, the identity of the currently known fossil species in Pheidole is discussed and †P.cordata from Baltic amber is considered as incertae sedis, resulting in no Pheidole species currently recognized for Baltic amber
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spelling pubmed-66692172019-08-06 A new species of Pheidole (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Dominican amber with a review of the fossil records for the genus Casadei-Ferreira, Alexandre Chaul, Julio C.M. Feitosa, Rodrigo M. Zookeys Research Article Abstract. Pheidole comprises approximately 1,000 extant species distributed worldwide, being particularly diverse in the New World. In addition to its high diversity and ecological prevalence, the genus is also characterized by the predominantly intraspecific dimorphism, with major and minor workers. Currently, five fossil species are known, all of which are represented only by minor workers. A new species, †Pheidoleanticuasp. nov., is described from Dominican amber, based on a major worker. Additionally, the identity of the currently known fossil species in Pheidole is discussed and †P.cordata from Baltic amber is considered as incertae sedis, resulting in no Pheidole species currently recognized for Baltic amber Pensoft Publishers 2019-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6669217/ /pubmed/31388325 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.866.35756 Text en Alexandre Casadei-Ferreira, Julio C.M. Chaul, Rodrigo M. Feitosa http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Casadei-Ferreira, Alexandre
Chaul, Julio C.M.
Feitosa, Rodrigo M.
A new species of Pheidole (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Dominican amber with a review of the fossil records for the genus
title A new species of Pheidole (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Dominican amber with a review of the fossil records for the genus
title_full A new species of Pheidole (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Dominican amber with a review of the fossil records for the genus
title_fullStr A new species of Pheidole (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Dominican amber with a review of the fossil records for the genus
title_full_unstemmed A new species of Pheidole (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Dominican amber with a review of the fossil records for the genus
title_short A new species of Pheidole (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Dominican amber with a review of the fossil records for the genus
title_sort new species of pheidole (formicidae, myrmicinae) from dominican amber with a review of the fossil records for the genus
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6669217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31388325
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.866.35756
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