Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: C. Baroni Urbani. 1980. Anochetus corayi n. sp., the first fossil Odontomachiti ant (amber collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. II: Odontomachiti). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 55:1-6

Belongs to Anochetus according to C. A. Schmidt and S. O. Shattuck 2014

See also Baroni Urbani 1980, de Andrade 1994, Fernández and Sendoya 2004 and Spahr 1987

Sister taxa: Anochetus africanus, Anochetus ambiguus, Anochetus brevidentatus, Anochetus conisquamis, Anochetus dubius, Anochetus exstinctus, Anochetus intermedius, Anochetus lucidus, Anochetus madagascarensis, Anochetus miosumatrensis

Type specimen: SMNS Do-834-K-1, 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)

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