Cephalotes olmecus
{{short description|Extinct species of ant}}
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| taxon = Cephalotes olmecus
| authority = de Andrade, 1999
| extinct = true
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Cephalotes olmecus is an extinct species of arboreal ant of the genus Cephalotes known only from Mexican amber inclusions.{{cite web |title=Fossilworks: Cephalotes olmecus |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=256724 |website=Paleobiology Database |access-date=6 January 2024}}
Taxonomy
Cephalotes olmecus was first described in 1999 from two Chiapas amber fossil inclusions of respectively a worker and a dwarf soldier ant.{{cite journal |last1=Andrade |first1=Maria L. de |last2=Baroni Urbani |first2=Cesare |title=Diversity and adaptation in the ant genus Cephalotes, past and present (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) |journal=Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde |date=1999 |volume=271 |pages=425-429, 853 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30261633 |access-date=6 January 2024 |publisher=Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde}} 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.
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Category:Fossil taxa described in 1999
Category:Insects described in 1999
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