The first queen-worker association for Cretaceous Formicidae: the winged caste of Haidomyrmex cerberus

Two queen ant specimens, one alate and one dealate, from mid-Cretaceous (Late Albian–Early Cenomanian) Burmese amber are herein reported as belonging Haidomyrmex cerberus Dlussky, 1996. This is the first discovery and documentation of an alate queen in Haidomyrmex. Compared with workers of Haidomyrm...

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Autores principales: Guo, Yuanyuan, Shih, Chungkun, Zhuo, De, Ren, Dong, Zhao, Yunyun, Gao, Taiping
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8280096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34305419
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1048.66920
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author Guo, Yuanyuan
Shih, Chungkun
Zhuo, De
Ren, Dong
Zhao, Yunyun
Gao, Taiping
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Shih, Chungkun
Zhuo, De
Ren, Dong
Zhao, Yunyun
Gao, Taiping
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description Two queen ant specimens, one alate and one dealate, from mid-Cretaceous (Late Albian–Early Cenomanian) Burmese amber are herein reported as belonging Haidomyrmex cerberus Dlussky, 1996. This is the first discovery and documentation of an alate queen in Haidomyrmex. Compared with workers of Haidomyrmex cerberus, alate and dealate queens are larger in body size, have smaller compound eyes, a longer antennal scape, more complex mandibles, and a relatively large-sized metasoma. It is hypothesized that these differences are due to caste differences.
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spelling pubmed-82800962021-07-22 The first queen-worker association for Cretaceous Formicidae: the winged caste of Haidomyrmex cerberus Guo, Yuanyuan Shih, Chungkun Zhuo, De Ren, Dong Zhao, Yunyun Gao, Taiping Zookeys Short Communication Two queen ant specimens, one alate and one dealate, from mid-Cretaceous (Late Albian–Early Cenomanian) Burmese amber are herein reported as belonging Haidomyrmex cerberus Dlussky, 1996. This is the first discovery and documentation of an alate queen in Haidomyrmex. Compared with workers of Haidomyrmex cerberus, alate and dealate queens are larger in body size, have smaller compound eyes, a longer antennal scape, more complex mandibles, and a relatively large-sized metasoma. It is hypothesized that these differences are due to caste differences. Pensoft Publishers 2021-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8280096/ /pubmed/34305419 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1048.66920 Text en Yuanyuan Guo, Chungkun Shih, De Zhuo, Dong Ren, Yunyun Zhao, Taiping Gao https://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.
spellingShingle Short Communication
Guo, Yuanyuan
Shih, Chungkun
Zhuo, De
Ren, Dong
Zhao, Yunyun
Gao, Taiping
The first queen-worker association for Cretaceous Formicidae: the winged caste of Haidomyrmex cerberus
title The first queen-worker association for Cretaceous Formicidae: the winged caste of Haidomyrmex cerberus
title_full The first queen-worker association for Cretaceous Formicidae: the winged caste of Haidomyrmex cerberus
title_fullStr The first queen-worker association for Cretaceous Formicidae: the winged caste of Haidomyrmex cerberus
title_full_unstemmed The first queen-worker association for Cretaceous Formicidae: the winged caste of Haidomyrmex cerberus
title_short The first queen-worker association for Cretaceous Formicidae: the winged caste of Haidomyrmex cerberus
title_sort first queen-worker association for cretaceous formicidae: the winged caste of haidomyrmex cerberus
topic Short Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8280096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34305419
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1048.66920
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