Titanomyrma simillima

†Titanomyrma simillima holotype

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: †Formiciinae
Genus: †Titanomyrma
Species: †Titanomyrma simillima

Name

• †Titanomyrma simillima (Lutz, 1986) Archibald, Johnson, Mathewes, & Greenwood, 2011

Synonymy

• †Formicium simillimum Lutz, 1986 198, figs. 8-10 ♀ queen (protonym)

• †Titanomyrma simillimum (Lutz, 1986) Archibald, Johnson, Mathewes, & Greenwood, 2011

Type material

• Holotype: SMF MeI 1006 (alate queen)
  • Repository: Forschungsstation Grube Messel, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Messel, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany

• Paratypes SMF MeI 42, 330, 335 (♂), 335 (♀), 339, 348, 411, 590, 983, 989
  • Repository: Forschungsstation Grube Messel, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Messel, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany

• ⧼Referred material⧽ SMF MeI 53, 55, 105, 184, 340, 347, 366, 598, 600, 931, 978, 991, 1004, 1008, 1013
  • Repository: Forschungsstation Grube Messel, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Messel, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany

• ⧼Referred material⧽: HLMD Me590
  • Repository: Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Rhine-Main-Area, Hesse, Germany

• ⧼Referred material⧽: LNK 7♀ und 1♂, (not numbered).
  • Repository: Landessammlungen für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Type locality

• Eocene, Lutetian; Messel Formation; approximately 1 m (3.3 ft) above the guiding horizon α, Grube Messel (Grabungsstelle 16), Messel, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany

Etymology

• "simillimus, -a, -um (lat.) = very similar; so named because of the great resemblance to F. giganteum n. sp., F. brodiei Westwood 1854 und F. berryi (Carpenter 1929)"

Distribution

Eocene

• Lutetian
  • Messel Formation; approximately 1 m (3.3 ft) above the guiding horizon α, Grube Messel (Grabungsstelle 16), Messel, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany

References

• Lutz, H. 1986. Eine neue Unterfamilie der Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) aus dem mittel-eozänen Ölschiefer der „Grube Messel“ bei Darmstadt (Deutschland, S-Hessen). Senckenbergiana lethaea 67(1-4): 177–218. PDF. Reference page. 
• Archibald, S.B., Johnson, K.R., Mathewes, R.W. & Greenwood, D.R. 2011. Intercontinental dispersal of giant thermophilic ants across the Arctic during early Eocene hyperthermals. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) 278(1725): 3679–3686. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0729 Reference page.