Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: E. O. Wilson. 1985. Ants of the Dominican Amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) 1. Two New Myrmicine Genera and an Aberrant Pheidole. Psyche 92(1):1-9
Belongs to Pheidole according to A. Casadei-Ferreira et al. 2019
See also Fernández and Sendoya 2004, Spahr 1987 and Wilson 1985
Sister taxa: Pheidole anticua, Pheidole cordata, Pheidole pallidula, Pheidole pauchil, Pheidole plagiaria, Pheidole primigenia, Pheidole rasnitsyni, Pheidole tertiaria
Type specimen: Its type locality is Dominican amber, La Toca (MCZ coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber, La Toca (MCZ coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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