| Cephalotes olmecus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Genus: | Cephalotes |
| Species: | †C. olmecus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Cephalotes olmecus de Andrade, 1999 | |
Cephalotes olmecus is an extinct species of arboreal ant of the genus Cephalotes known only from Mexican amber inclusions.
Taxonomy
Cephalotes olmecus was first described in 1999 from two Chiapas amber fossil inclusions of respectively a worker and a dwarf soldier ant. Maria de Andrade, who described the species, placed C. olmecus in the grandinosus clade in which it forms a subclade with fossil species Cephalotes maya and extant species Cephalotes foliaceus.
The specific epithet olmecus is in reference to the Olmecs of Mexico.
References
- "Fossilworks: Cephalotes olmecus". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^ Andrade, Maria L. de; Baroni Urbani, Cesare (1999). "Diversity and adaptation in the ant genus Cephalotes, past and present (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. 271. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde: 425–429, 853. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
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