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Myrmicium

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Pseudosiricidae

Taxonomy

Myrmicium was named by Westwood (1854). Its type is Myrmicium heerii.

It was assigned to Myrmiciidae by Maa (1949); to Myrmiciinae by Rasnitsyn and Jarzembowski (1998); to Symphyta by Bolton (2012); and to Pseudosiricidae by Carpenter (1992), Taeger et al. (2010) and Freitas et al. (2020).

Species

Apiaria mesozoica, Apiaria oppenheimi, M. araripterum, M. elongatum, M. heerii (type species), M. nanus, M. schroeteri (syn. Pseudosirex separatus, Pseudosirex darwini, Pseudosirex gracilis, Sphinx snelleni, Pseudosirex compressus, Pseudosirex deichmuelleri, Pseudosirex elegans, Pseudosirex karschi, Pseudosirex minimus, Rhipidorhabdus schroeteri, Pseudosirex antiquus), Pseudosirex heeri

Synonyms

Apiaria was named by Germar (1839).

It was replaced with Myrmicium by Taeger et al. (2010).

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Handlirsch (1906).
Pseudosirex was named by Weyenbergh (1873).

It was synonymized subjectively with Myrmicium by Maa (1949) and Taeger et al. (2010).

It was assigned to Pseudosiricidae by Handlirsch (1906) and Carpenter (1932).
Fabellovena was named by Oppenheim (1885).

It was synonymized subjectively with Myrmicium by Maa (1949) and Taeger et al. (2010).
Rhipidorhabdus was named by Oppenheim (1885).

It was synonymized subjectively with Pseudosirex by Handlirsch (1906); it was synonymized subjectively with Myrmicium by Maa (1949) and Taeger et al. (2010).
Hagenia was named by Weyenbergh (1869).

It was synonymized subjectively with Myrmicium by Maa (1949) and Taeger et al. (2010).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1839	Apiaria Germar p. 210
1854	Myrmicium Westwood
1869	Hagenia Weyenbergh p. 26
1873	Pseudosirex Weyenbergh p. 238
1885	Fabellovena Oppenheim p. 344
1885	Rhipidorhabdus Oppenheim p. 344
1906	Apiaria Handlirsch p. 551
1906	Pseudosirex Handlirsch p. 574
1932	Pseudosirex Carpenter p. 125
1949	Myrmicium Maa p. 17
1992	Myrmicium Carpenter
1998	Myrmicium Rasnitsyn and Jarzembowski p. 343
2010	Myrmicium Taeger et al. p. 96
2012	Myrmicium Bolton
2020	Myrmicium Freitas et al. p. 5

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Hymenopterida
order	Hymenoptera
—	Unicalcarida
superfamily	Siricoidea
family	Pseudosiricidae
genus	Myrmicium

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.

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]

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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

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 Tithonian	150.8 - 145.0	Germany (Bavaria)	Pseudosirex schroeteri (122586) Pseudosirex schroeteri, Pseudosirex nanus (139876)
Early/Lower Tithonian	150.8 - 145.0	Germany (Bayern)	Fabellovena karschi, Rhipidorhabdus gracilis, Belostomum elongatum, Fabellovena elegans, Fabellovena compressa, Rhipidorhabdus minimus, Apiaria antiqua, Rhipidorhabdus schroeteri, Cryptocephalus mesozoicus (123985) Pseudosirex nanus, Pseudosirex snelleni, M. nanus, M. elongatus, M. schroeteri (123144) Pseudosirex schroeteri, Pseudosirex deichmuelleri, Pseudosirex minimus, Pseudosirex elongatus (133578) Sphinx snelleni, Cryptocephalus mesozoicus, Pseudosirex darwini, Rhipidorhabdus minimus, Rhipidorhabdus schroeteri (123906)
Early/Lower Tithonian	150.8 - 145.0	Germany	Sphinx sp. (115325)
Early/Lower Berriasian	145.0 - 140.2	United Kingdom (England)	M. heerii (105966)
Late/Upper Aptian	122.46 - 113.0	Brazil (Ceará)	M. araripterum (213661)