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Pseudosiricidae

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Pseudosiricidae

Taxonomy
Pseudosiricidae was named by Handlirsch (1906). It is not extant.

It was reranked as the subfamily Pseudosiricinae by Cockerell (1921); it was replaced with Myrmiciidae by Maa (1949); it was synonymized subjectively with Siricidae by Rasnitsyn (1988).

It was assigned to Hymenoptera by Handlirsch (1906); to Siricidae by Cockerell (1921); to Symphyta by Carpenter (1992); and to Siricoidea by Taeger et al. (2010) and Freitas et al. (2020).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1906Pseudosiricidae Handlirsch p. 574
1921Pseudosiricinae Cockerell p. 23
1949Myrmiciidae Maa p. 17
1969Myrmiciidae Rasnitsyn p. 73
1992Pseudosiricidae Carpenter
1998Myrmiciinae Rasnitsyn and Jarzembowski p. 343
2010Pseudosiricidae Taeger et al. p. 96
2020Pseudosiricidae Freitas et al. p. 5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
superfamilySiricoidea
familyPseudosiricidae
familyPseudosiricidae

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. †Pseudosiricidae Handlirsch 1906
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G. †Myrmicium Westwood 1854
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Myrmicium araripterum Freitas et al. 2020
Myrmicium elongatum Germar 1839
Myrmicium heerii Westwood 1854
Myrmicium nanus Handlirsch 1906
Myrmicium schroeteri Germar 1839
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Invalid names: Pseudosirex antiquus Germar 1839 [synonym], Pseudosirex compressus Oppenheim 1885 [synonym], Pseudosirex darwini Weyenbergh 1873 [synonym], Pseudosirex deichmuelleri Handlirsch 1906 [synonym], Pseudosirex elegans Oppenheim 1885 [synonym], Pseudosirex gracilis Oppenheim 1885 [synonym], Pseudosirex karschi Oppenheim 1885 [synonym], Pseudosirex minimus Oppenheim 1885 [synonym], Pseudosirex separatus Handlirsch 1906 [synonym], Rhipidorhabdus schroeteri Oppenheim 1885 [synonym], Sphinx snelleni Weyenbergh 1869 [synonym]
Invalid names: Apiaria Germar 1839 [replaced], Fabellovena Oppenheim 1885 [synonym], Hagenia Weyenbergh 1869 [synonym], Pseudosirex Weyenbergh 1873 [synonym], Rhipidorhabdus Oppenheim 1885 [synonym]
Invalid names: Myrmiciidae Maa 1949 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Tithonian to the top of the Late/Upper Aptian or 150.80000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Germany (Bavaria) Pseudosirex schroeteri (122586) Pseudosirex schroeteri, Pseudosirex nanus (139876)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Germany (Bayern) Fabellovena karschi, Rhipidorhabdus gracilis, Belostomum elongatum, Fabellovena elegans, Fabellovena compressa, Rhipidorhabdus minimus, Apiaria antiqua, Rhipidorhabdus schroeteri, Cryptocephalus mesozoicus (123985) Pseudosirex nanus, Pseudosirex snelleni, Myrmicium nanus, Myrmicium elongatus, Myrmicium schroeteri (123144) Pseudosirex schroeteri, Pseudosirex deichmuelleri, Pseudosirex minimus, Pseudosirex elongatus (133578) Sphinx snelleni, Cryptocephalus mesozoicus, Pseudosirex darwini, Rhipidorhabdus minimus, Rhipidorhabdus schroeteri (123906)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Germany Sphinx sp. (115325)
Early/Lower Berriasian145.0 - 140.2United Kingdom (England) Myrmicium heerii (105966)
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 113.0Brazil (CearĂ¡) Myrmicium araripterum (213661)