Apterostigma eowilsoni

Apterostigma eowilsoni is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae known from a single possibly Miocene[1] fossil found on Hispaniola.

[2] The amber was produced by the extinct Hymenaea protera, which formerly grew on Hispaniola, across northern South America and up to southern Mexico.

The specimens were collected from an undetermined amber mine in fossil bearing rocks of the Cordillera Septentrional mountains, northern Dominican Republic.

The fossil was first studied by entomologist Ted R. Schultz of the National Museum of Natural History with his 2007 type description of the new species being published in the journal Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute.

The head capsule shows a clypeus which is smooth and shiny, a feature seen in the living pilosum group of Apterostigma species.

Apterostigma auriculatum worker showing eye placement