Leptomyrmex neotropicus 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: | Leptomyrmex |
Species: | †L. neotropicus
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Binomial name | |
†Leptomyrmex neotropicus Baroni Urbani, 1980
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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]