Apterostigma electropilosum
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Apterostigma electropilosum is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae known from a single possibly Miocene fossil found on Hispaniola. A. electropilosum is one of only two species of th
Apterostigma pilosum worker
Dominican amber
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Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic derived from resin of the extinct tree Hymenaea protera. Dominican amber differentiates itself from Baltic amber by being nearly always transparent
Apterostigma electropilosum
…A. electropilosum is one of only two species of the ant genus Apterostigma and one of five Attine species to have been described from fossils found in Dominican amber. Apterostigma electropilosum is known from a solitary fossil insect which is an inclusion in a transparent chunk of Dominican amber. The amber was…
Worker termite in Dominican amber
Anochetus intermedius, an ant
Odontomachus spinifer