†Platythyrea dentata Lattke 2003 (ant)
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Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: J. E. Lattke. 2003. The genus Platythyrea Roger, 1863 in Dominican Amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Entomotropica 18(2):107-111
Belongs to Platythyrea according to C. A. Schmidt and S. O. Shattuck 2014
See also Bolton 2012 and Lattke 2003
Sister taxa: Platythyrea dlusskyi, Platythyrea parallela, Platythyrea primaeva, Platythyrea procera, Platythyrea pumilio, Platythyrea scalpra
Type specimen: AMNH DR-14-461, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (AMNH coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (AMNH coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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