Myrmeciites (?) tabanifluviensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Formicoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Formicoidea

Familia: Formicidae
Subfamilia: Myrmeciinae
Genus (collective group): †Myrmeciites
Species: †Myrmeciites (?) tabanifluviensis

Name

• †Myrmeciites (?) tabanifluviensis Archibald, Cover, & Moreau, 2006 pg.502-505, Figs. 15, 16O

Type material

• Holotype: 2003.2.10CDM034 (part only) (partial reproductive adult)
  • Repository: Courtenay and District Museum and Palaeontology Centre, Comox Valley, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
    • Collected: S. Bruce Archibald, September 2001

Type locality

• Eocene, Ypresian; Eocene Okanagan Highlands; Unnamed Shale beds "Horsefly Shales"; Black Creek Road site, near Horsefly, Horsefly River Valley, Cariboo region, central British Columbia, Canada

Etymology

• "The specific epithet alludes to the Horsefly River, the locality of the holotype. It is formed from Tabanus L., a Horsefly genus name; the Latin fluvius, "river"; and the suffix -ensis, indicating "place" or "origin"."

Distribution

Eocene

• Ypresian
• Eocene Okanagan Highlands
  • Unnamed Shale beds "Horsefly Shales"; Black Creek Road site, near Horsefly, Horsefly River Valley, Cariboo region, central British Columbia, Canada

References

Primary references

• Archibald, S.B., Cover, S. P. & Moreau, C. S. 2006. Bulldog Ants of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands and History of the Subfamily (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99(3): 487–523. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2006)99[487:BAOTEO]2.0.CO;2. http://antbase.org/ants/publications/21067/21067.pdf. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Archibald, S.B., Rasnitsyn, A.P., Brothers, D.J. & Mathewes, R.W. 2018. Modernisation of the Hymenoptera: ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies of the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of western North America. The Canadian Entomologist 150(2): 205–257. doi:10.4039/tce.2017.59. ISSN 0008-347X.  Reference page. 
• Jouault, C. & Nel, A. 2022. The oldest Cenozoic ant fossil: †Tyrannomecia gen. nov. (Formicidae: Myrmeciinae) from the Palaeocene Menat Formation (France). Historical Biology 34(11): 2241–2248. doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.2010192. ISSN 0891-2963. https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03477166/file/Menat-myrme.pdf.  Reference page.