Azteca eumeces
†Azteca eumeces Temporal range: Burdigalian, Early Miocene Dominican amber, Dominican Republic | |
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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
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 78, catalogue)
- Wilson, E. O. 1985c. Ants of the Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). 3. The subfamily Dolichoderinae. Psyche (Camb.) 92: 17-37. (page 31, fig. 9 worker described)