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Systematics and early evolution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): the first male and worker-queen association for plus Gerontoformica

文献类型:期刊论文

作者Zhuang, Yuhui3,4,5; Perrichot, Vincent5; Li, Jiahao3,6; Zhuo, De1; Liu, Yu4; Wang, Bo3; Zhang, Qingqing4; Boudinot, Brendon E.2
刊名MYRMECOLOGICAL NEWS
出版日期2025
卷号35页码:89-98
关键词Kachin amber male ant castes differentiation sexual dimorphism Cretaceous
ISSN号1994-4136
DOI10.25849/myrmecol.news_035:089
英文摘要

The ant colony is a life unit for ants consisting of different female castes and males. Workers are mainly responsible for feeding and defence, while the queen and males are mainly responsible for colony continuity. The queen is also rarely active away from the nest, let alone preserved as a fossil with other workers. Male ants develop from unfertilised ant eggs, and the vast morphological differences make identification of males so difficult and often neglected in fossils that they are known as the 'forgotten caste'. In this study, we introduce tGerontoformica priapos sp.n. based on a male specimen and report for the first time the discovery of an ant colony specimen that includes both morphologically differentiated queen and worker castes of stem ants in a single piece of mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber. The type specimen of tGeront-oformica priapos sp.n. features well-preserved genitalia and wing venation, filling a critical gap in our comparative studies of sexual morphological differentiation in stem-group ants. Additionally, the discovery of this ant colony provides new insights into the morphological differentiation among different castes of tGerontoformica females. To facilitate future research, we also provide detailed morphological diagrams for the various castes and sexes of tGerontoformica.

WOS关键词AMBER HYMENOPTERA ; FOSSIL ANTS ; GENUS ; SUBFAMILIES ; DIVERSITY ; PONERINAE ; REVISION ; BEHAVIOR ; HISTORY ; SIZE
资助项目National Natural Sci-ence Foundation of China[42125201] ; National Natural Sci-ence Foundation of China[42293280] ; Sci-ence Foundation of Yunnan Province[202401CF070193] ; Sci-ence Foundation of Yunnan Province[202301AS070049] ; Sci-ence Foundation of Yunnan Province[2015HA021]
WOS研究方向Entomology
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:001470490900005
出版者OESTERREICHISCHE GESELL ENTOMOFAUNISTIK, C/O NATURHISTOR MUSEUM WIEN
资助机构National Natural Sci-ence Foundation of China ; Sci-ence Foundation of Yunnan Province
源URL[http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/45074]  
专题中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所
通讯作者Liu, Yu; Zhang, Qingqing
作者单位1.Beijing Xiachong Amber Museum, 9 Shuanghe Middle Rd, Beijing 100023, Peoples R China
2.Senckenberg Gesell Naturforsch, Senckenberganlage 25, D-6035 Frankfurt, Germany
3.Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, State Key Lab Palaeobiol & Stratig, Nanjing 218000, Peoples R China
4.Yunnan Univ, Inst Palaeontol, Yunnan Key Lab Palaeobiol, South Waihuan Rd, Kunming 650500, Peoples R China
5.Univ Rennes, Geosci Rennes UMR 6118, CNRS, F-35000 Rennes, France
6.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
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Zhuang, Yuhui,Perrichot, Vincent,Li, Jiahao,et al. Systematics and early evolution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): the first male and worker-queen association for plus Gerontoformica[J]. MYRMECOLOGICAL NEWS,2025,35:89-98.
APA Zhuang, Yuhui.,Perrichot, Vincent.,Li, Jiahao.,Zhuo, De.,Liu, Yu.,...&Boudinot, Brendon E..(2025).Systematics and early evolution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): the first male and worker-queen association for plus Gerontoformica.MYRMECOLOGICAL NEWS,35,89-98.
MLA Zhuang, Yuhui,et al."Systematics and early evolution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): the first male and worker-queen association for plus Gerontoformica".MYRMECOLOGICAL NEWS 35(2025):89-98.

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来源:南京地质古生物研究所

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