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Distribution
 Modern
Gracilidris is known from Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, where it
has been collected in a variety of open habitats such as Campo Cerrado
and Chaco. These ants have been encountered only a few times, so
the actual range may be greater than the known distribution. The
figure at right shows the locations where G. pombero is known to
occur in South America.
The extinct species G. humilioides has been collected on the
Caribbean island of Hispaniola in fossilized amber (Wilson 1985).
references:
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Wild, A. L., and F. Cuezzo. 2006. Rediscovery of a fossil
dolichoderine ant lineage (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) and
a description of a new genus from South America. Zootaxa 1142: 57-68.
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Wilson, E. O. (1985) Ants of the Dominican amber. 3. The
subfamily Dolichoderinae. Psyche 92: 17–37.
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