Colobopsis brodiei

†Colobopsis brodiei Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl ↓ Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Colobopsis
Species:	†C. brodiei
Binomial name
†Colobopsis brodiei (Donisthorpe, 1920)

The holotype is possibly an ant but so poorly preserved that it does not permit attribution to a subfamily. We refer it to as Formicidae incertae sedis (Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 99). However, Ward et al. (2016) places this taxon in the genus Colobopsis within the subfamily Formicinae.

Distribution

This taxon was described from Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK (Priabonian, Late Eocene).

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• †brodiei. †Camponotus (Colobopsis) brodiei Donisthorpe, 1920: 93, pl. 5, fig. 13 (s.) UNITED KINGDOM (England, Isle of Wight, Eocene).
  • Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
  • Status as species: Burnham, 1979: 116; Bolton, 1995b: 89.
  • Unidentifiable taxon, incertae sedis in Formicidae: Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 433.

References

• Donisthorpe, H. 1920b. British Oligocene ants. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 9(6): 81-94. (page 93, pl. 5, fig. 13 soldier described)
• Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 89, catalogue)
• Ward, P.S., Blaimer, B.B., Fisher, B.L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072 (3): 343–357 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.4).