Aquilomyrmex, Perrichot & Wang & Barden, 2020

Perrichot, Vincent, Wang, Bo & Barden, Phillip, 2020, New remarkable hell ants (Formicidae: Haidomyrmecinae stat. nov.) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar, Cretaceous Research 109, pp. 1-18 : 10

Genus Aquilomyrmex gen. nov.

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Type species: Aquilomyrmex huangi gen. et sp. nov.

Etymology. The generic name is a combination of aquilex (Latin, meaning ‘dowser’), and myrmex (Greek, meaning ‘ant’), and refers to the dowsing stick-like clypeal and labral processes. The name is masculine.

Diagnosis (gyne). Head dorsoventrally flattened, with large compound eyes situated dorsolaterally at anterior margin of head; with prominent, anteriorly protruding frontal shelf, clypeal horn and labrum. Antennae inserted laterally on frontal shelf, well in front of compound eyes and above base of clypeal horn; antennal scape long. Apex of clypeal horn bifurcated widely, with each bifurcation subsequently terminating in a bilobed pad; lateral margins of horn connecting obliquely with anteroventral angles of head, just above mandibular insertion, connected by a cleared vertical cuticle, rimmed by short thin erect setae and occasional serrations. Labrum situated ventrally of horn, with size and shape similar to horn except for apex, which is only bifid; ventral margin coated by peglike denticles on its basal half. Mandibles sickle-shaped, inserted ventrally very close to compound eyes, with all margins smooth (triangular blade absent) and acute tips converging between labral apex. Legs very long, with femora distinctly swollen basally, and apically with two flange-like cuticular lobes flanking the base of tibia. Petiole node-shaped, with small subpetiolar process. A deep, girdling constriction between first and second gastral segments.