[1] The genus currently contains three species, all[1] from the early Miocene, Burdigalian stage, Dominican amber deposits on the island of Hispaniola.

[1] All known specimens of Electromyrmococcus are preserved in amber, and all are either being clutched in the mandibles of Acropyga glaesaria species ants,[3] or in other close association with them.

[1] E. abductus was described from the holotype, a single elongated piriform female 0.7 millimetres (0.028 in) long, clutched in the mandibles of an Acropyga glaesaria adult.

The amber was recovered from the La Toca mine group northeast of Santiago de los Caballeros in the Cibao Valley.

The species epithet abductus, which is Latin for "carried off", was chosen by Williams in reference to the mealybug being preserved in the ant's mandibles.

However the constriction was probably not a feature possessed by the species in life, but rather thought to be a result of being compressed by the ant closely associated with it when they became trapped in resin.

They chose the specific epithet inclusus which is a Latin participle meaning "enclosed" or "imprisoned" in allusion to the female's preservation in amber.