Leptomyrmex neotropicus

Leptomyrmex neotropicus
Temporal range: Early Miocene
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Dominican amber
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Leptomyrmex
Species:
†L. neotropicus
Binomial name
†Leptomyrmex neotropicus
Baroni Urbani, 1980

Leptomyrmex neotropicus is an extinct species of Miocene ant in the genus Leptomyrmex. Described by Baroni Urbani in 1980, a total of 10 workers of this species were found in a single block of Dominican amber.[1]

References

  1. ^ Lucky, Andrea; Ward, Philip S. (2010), "Taxonomic revision of the ant genus Leptomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." (PDF), Zootaxa, 2688: 1–67, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2688.1.1


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