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Haidomyrmecinae

Haidomyrmecinae, occasionally called hell ants, are an extinct subfamily of ants (Formicidae) known from Cretaceous fossils primarily found in amber from North America, South America, Europe, and Asia, spanning the late Aptian to Campanian, around 113 to 79 million years ago. The subfamily was first proposed in 2003 but had been subsequently treated as the tribe Haidomyrmecini and placed in the extinct ant subfamily Sphecomyrminae. Reevaluation of the Haidomyrmecini in 2020 led to the elevation of the group back to the subfamily. The family contains nine genera and 13 species.

Genera
'' '' Including the type genus Haidomyrmex, the subfamily contains 10 genera and 14 species. The vast majority of species are known from Burmese amber, which dates to the mid-Cretaceous, around 100 million years ago. Other species are known from French amber of equivalent age, as well as the Canadian amber of Alberta, Canada, which dates to around 80 million years ago. Only a single limestone fossil of a hell ant has been known so far. It is from the Crato Formation of Brazil, from around 113 million years ago, and is considered the oldest ant fossil ever found. • AquilomyrmexA. huangiCeratomyrmexCe. ellenbergeriChonidrisCh. insolitaDhagnathosDh. autokratorDilobopsDi. bidentataHaidomyrmexHx. cerberusHx. scimitarusHx. zigrasiHaidomyrmodesHs. mammuthusHaidoterminusHt. cippusLinguamyrmexL. brevicornisL. rhinocerusL. vladiProtoceratomyrmexP. revelatus VulcanidrisV. cratensis ==References==
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