Leptomyrmex neotropicus

†Leptomyrmex neotropicus; Temporal range: Early Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Dominican amber
Scientific classification
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

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

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[1] Lucky, Andrea; Ward, Philip S. (2010), "Taxonomic revision of the ant genus Leptomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." (PDF), Zootaxa, 2688: 1–67

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