Azteca eumeces

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Azteca eumeces
Temporal range: Burdigalian, Early Miocene Dominican amber, Dominican Republic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Tribe: Leptomyrmecini
Genus: Azteca
Species: A. eumeces
Binomial name
Azteca eumeces
Wilson, 1985

Identification

Distribution

This taxon was described from Dominican amber, Dominican Republic (Burdigalian, Early Miocene).

Castes

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • eumeces. †Azteca eumeces Wilson, 1985c: 31, fig. 9 (w.) DOMINICAN AMBER (Dominican Republic, Miocene).
    • [Misspelled as eumeneces by Brandão, 1991: 329.]
    • Status as species: Brandão, 1991: 329; Shattuck, 1994: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 78.

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology, without number.

Description

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