Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: M. L. de Andrade. 2004. A new species of Platythyrea from Dominican amber and description of a new extant species from Honduras (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 111:643-655
Belongs to Platythyrea according to C. A. Schmidt and S. O. Shattuck 2014
See also Bolton 2012 and de Andrade 2004
Sister taxa: Platythyrea dentata, Platythyrea dlusskyi, Platythyrea parallela, Platythyrea primaeva, Platythyrea procera, Platythyrea scalpra
Type specimen: MCZC-37, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican Amber (MCZ collection), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican Amber (MCZ collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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