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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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