Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: M. L. de Andrade. 1999. Taxonomic names, in Diversity and adaptation in the ant genus Cephalotes, past and present. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 271
Belongs to Cephalotes according to F. Fernández and S. Sendoya 2004
See also de Andrade 1999
Sister taxa: Cephalotes alveolatus, Cephalotes bloosi, Cephalotes caribicus, Cephalotes dieteri, Cephalotes hispaniolicus, Cephalotes integerrimus, Cephalotes jansei, Cephalotes maya, Cephalotes obscurus, Cephalotes olmecus, Cephalotes poinari, Cephalotes resinae, Cephalotes serratus, Cephalotes squamosus, Cephalotes sucinus, Cephalotes taino, Cephalotes ventriosus
Type specimen: Poinar H-10-105, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Poinar coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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