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Leptomyrmex neotropicus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Leptomyrmex neotropicus was named by Baroni Urbani (1980). Its type specimen is SMNS Do-996-K-1, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber (SMNS coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

It was recombined as Camponotus neotropicus by Wilson (1985).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1980Leptomyrmex neotropicus Baroni Urbani p. 4 figs. 1-5
1985Camponotus neotropicus Wilson p. 34
1987Leptomyrmex neotropicus Baroni Urbani and Wilson p. 2 fig. 1,2,3b
1987Leptomyrmex neotropicus Spahr p. 53
2004Leptomyrmex neotropicus Fernández and Sendoya p. 19
2016Leptomyrmex neotropicus Boudinot et al. p. 668
2017Leptomyrmex neotropicus Barden et al. p. 766 fig. 1B,C
2023Leptomyrmex neotropicus Sawh et al. p. 143 fig. 2,3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
—Antennoclypeata
subfamilyDolichoderinae
tribeLeptomyrmecini()
genusLeptomyrmexMayr 1862
speciesneotropicus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Leptomyrmex neotropicus Baroni Urbani 1980
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Camponotus neotropicus (21978) Leptomyrmex neotropicus (type locality: 122474 122982 230276)