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Elaphrodites

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Elaphrodites
Scientific classification Edit this 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

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  • Elaphrodites mutatus Zhang, 1989
  • Elaphrodites scutulatus Zhang, 1989

References

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  1. ^ 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)