Elaphrodites
Appearance
Elaphrodites | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
Tribe: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †Elaphrodites Zhang, J., 1989 |
Type species | |
Elaphrodites scutulatus | |
Diversity | |
2 fossil species |
Elaphrodites is an extinct genus of ants of the subfamily Dolichoderinae. Two fossils were discovered and described by Zhang in 1989.[1]
Species
[edit]- Elaphrodites mutatus Zhang, J., 1989
- Elaphrodites scutulatus Zhang, J., 1989
References
[edit]- ^ Zhang, J. 1989. Fossil insects from Shanwang, Shandong, China. Jinan, China: Shandong Science and Technology Publishing House, 459 pp. (page 284, Elaphrodites as genus; in Dolichoderinae)