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- Title
The first queen-worker association for Cretaceous Formicidae: the winged caste of Haidomyrmex cerberus.
- Authors
Yuanyuan Guo; Chungkun Shih; De Zhuo; Dong Ren; Yunyun Zhao; Taiping Gao
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
MYANMAR; CASTE; ANTS; BODY size; QUEEN honeybees; MANDIBLE
- Publication
ZooKeys, 2021, Issue 1048, p69
- ISSN
1313-2989
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3897/zookeys.1048.66920