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 Anochetus according to C. A. Schmidt and S. O. Shattuck 2014
See also de Andrade 1994 and Fernández and Sendoya 2004
Sister taxa: Anochetus africanus, Anochetus ambiguus, Anochetus brevidentatus, Anochetus conisquamis, Anochetus corayi, Anochetus exstinctus, Anochetus intermedius, Anochetus lucidus, Anochetus madagascarensis, Anochetus miosumatrensis
Type specimen: SMNS Do-4192, 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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