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Issue: Vol. 1142 No. 1: 8 Mar. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-03-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1142.1.5
Page range: 57–68
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 2

Rediscovery of a fossil dolichoderine ant lineage (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) and a description of a new genus from South America

Department of Entomology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616, U.S.A.
CONICET - INSUE. Fac. de Ciencias Naturales e IML. Miguel Lillo 205. T4000JFE - San Miguel de Tucumán, ARGENTINA
Hymenoptera Formicidae taxonomy chaco cerrado neotropics

Abstract

We describe a new genus, Gracilidris Wild & Cuezzo gen. nov., and a new species, G. pombero Wild and Cuezzo sp. nov., of dolichoderine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) from Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina based on the worker caste. These ants are morphologically similar to the extinct Gracilidris humilioides (Wilson 1985) comb. nov., known from a single Dominican amber fossil, that we redescribe and transfer to Gracilidris from Linepithema Mayr.

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