Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: M. L. de Andrade. 1994. Fossil Odontomachiti ants from the Dominican Republic (amber collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. VII: Odontomachiti). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 199:1-28
Belongs to Odontomachus according to C. A. Schmidt and S. O. Shattuck 2014
See also Bolton 2012 and de Andrade 1994
Sister taxa: Odontomachus cephalotes, Odontomachus paleomyagra, Odontomachus pseudobauri, Odontomachus ruficeps, Odontomachus saevissimus
Type specimen: SMNS Do-2215, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (SMNS coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (SMNS coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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