Ctenobethylus Temporal range: Baltic amber
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
Tribe: | Tapinomini |
Genus: | †Ctenobethylus Brues, 1939 |
Species: | †C. goepperti
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Binomial name | |
†Ctenobethylus goepperti (Mayr, 1868)
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Ctenobethylus is an extinct genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae. The genus contains a single described species Ctenobethylus goepperti, where the fossil is known to be from the Baltic Amber.[1] The fossil contained a preserved mesostigmatid mite attached to the head of the ant, which is perhaps the oldest known evidence of ecological association between mites and ants.[2]