Dolichoderus intermedius
Appearance
†Dolichoderus intermedius Temporal range: Dominican amber
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
Genus: | Dolichoderus |
Species: | D. intermedius
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Binomial name | |
Dolichoderus intermedius Mackay, W.P., 1993
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Dolichoderus intermedius is an extinct species of Miocene ant in the genus Dolichoderus. Described by Mackay in 1993, a fossilised worker was found in the Dominican amber, although the specific locality has not been given.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ MacKay, W.P. 1993b. A review of the New World ants of the genus Dolichoderus. Sociobiology 22: 1-148. [(31.xii).1993.] PDF (page 64, fig. 6 worker described)
- ^ Shattuck, Steven O. (1994). Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Berkeley u.a.: Univ. of California Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-0520097872.