Technomyrmex caritatis Brandão and Baroni Urbani 1999 (ant)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: C. R. F. Brandão and C. Baroni Urbani. 1999. Taxonomic names, in New Technomyrmex in Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a reappraisal of Dolichoderinae phylogeny. Entomologica Scandinavica 29

Belongs to Technomyrmex according to F. Fernández and S. Sendoya 2004

See also Brandão and Baroni Urbani 1999

Sister taxa: Technomyrmex deletus, Technomyrmex hispaniolae, Technomyrmex kemaensis, Technomyrmex septentrionalis, Technomyrmex svojtkai

Type specimen: MCCB 0060, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber, Palo Quemado (MCB coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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