Gracilidris
Gracilidris is a genus of dolichoderine ants with nocturnal behaviour; thought to have gone extinct 15-20 million years ago, they have been found in Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina and were described in 2006.[4]
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| G. pombero worker from Paraguay | |
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| Genus: | Gracilidris |
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| Gracilidris pombero[2] | |
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The single existing fossil in Dominican amber makes the genus a Lazarus taxon. The only known extant species, Gracilidris pombero, nests in small colonies in the soil. These ants have been described only very recently and little is known about them.
Species
- †Gracilidris humiloides (Wilson, 1985)
- Gracilidris pombero Wild & Cuezzo, 2006
References
- Gracilidris Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine in Hymenoptera Name Server
- "Genus: Gracilidris". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
- Bolton, B. (2014). "Gracilidris". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- Wild, A. L. and F. Cuezzo. 2006. Rediscovery of a fossil Dolichoderine ant lineage (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) and a description of a new genus from South America. Zootaxa 1142: 57-68. ISSN: 1175-5334 PDF
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