Protrechina

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Protrechina
Temporal range: Middle Eocene
Protrechina carpenteri holotype worker
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Genus: Protrechina
Wilson, 1985
Species:
P. carpenteri
Binomial name
Protrechina carpenteri
Wilson, 1985
holotype in amber

Protrechina is an extinct,

Middle Eocene fossil found near Malvern, Arkansas. The genus contains a single described species Protrechina carpenteri known from a solitary worker entombed in Claiborne Formation amber.[1][2]

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