Anochetus exstinctus

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Anochetus exstinctus
Temporal range: Burdigalian, Early Miocene Dominican amber, Dominican Republic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Genus: Anochetus
Species: A. exstinctus
Binomial name
Anochetus exstinctus
De Andrade, 1994

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Holotype Specimen Label

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.

  • exstinctus. †Anochetus exstinctus De Andrade, 1994: 11, fig. 15 (w.) DOMINICAN AMBER (Dominican Republic, Miocene).
    • Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 64.

Holotype: Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde Stuttgart, no. DO-5479.

Description

References

  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 64, catalogue)
  • De Andrade, M. L. 1994c. Fossil Odontomachiti ants from the Dominican Republic (Amber Collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. VII: Odontomachiti). Stuttg. Beitr. Naturkd. Ser. B (Geol. Paläontol.) 199: 1-28 (page 11, fig. 15 worker described)