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| Azteca alpha Temporal range:
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| worker with juvenile Formicodiplogaster myrmenema | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Genus: | Azteca |
| Species: | †A. alpha
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| Binomial name | |
| †Azteca alpha Wilson, 1985
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Azteca alpha is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Dolichoderinae known from possibly Miocene[1] fossils found on Hispaniola. A. alpha is one of only two species in the genus Azteca to have been described from fossils, both found in Dominican amber.[2] It is the host for a fossil nematode, and has been preserved with scale insects.[3][4][5]
- ^ Poinar, G.; Heiss, E. (2011). "New Termitaphididae and Aradidae (Hemiptera) in Mexican and Dominican amber" (PDF). Palaeodiversity. 4: 51–62.
- ^ Wilson, E.O. (1985). "Ants of the Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). 3. The subfamily Dolichoderinae". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 92: 17–37. doi:10.1155/1985/20969.
- ^ Johnson, C.; Agosti, D; Delabie, J.H.; Dumpert, K.; Williams, D.J.; Von Tschirnhaus, M.; Maschwitz, M (2001). "Acropyga and Azteca Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with scale Insects (Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea): 20 Million Years of Intimate Symbiosis" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (3335): 1–18. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2001)335<0001:AAAAHF>2.0.CO;2. S2CID 55067700.
- ^ Poinar, G.O. (2011). "The Evolutionary History of Nematodes: As Revealed in Stone, Amber and Mummies". Nematology Monographs and Perspectives Pages. 9: 91–93, 239–240, 324–325.
- ^ Poinar, G.O. (2012). "Nematode Parasites and Associates of Ants: Past and Present". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 2012: 1–13. doi:10.1155/2012/192017.
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