Formicium brodiei

†Formicium brodiei Temporal range: Middle Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Isle of Purbeck (Durlston Bay), Dorset, U.K.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formiciinae
Genus:	Formicium
Species:	†F. brodiei
Binomial name
†Formicium brodiei Westwood, 1854

Distribution

This taxon was described from Isle of Purbeck (Durlston Bay), Dorset, U.K. (Middle Eocene).

Nomenclature

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

• †brodiei. †Formicium brodiei Westwood, 1854: 393, pl. 14, fig. 8 (wing) GREAT BRITAIN (Eocene). See also: Lutz, 1986: 184; in collective group name †Formicium: Archibald, et al. 2011: 3681.

References

• Archibald, S. B., Mathewes, R. W., Aase, A. 2023. Eocene giant ants, Arctic intercontinental dispersal, and hyperthermals revisited: discovery of fossil Titanomyrma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formiciinae) in the cool uplands of British Columbia, Canada. The Canadian Entomologist 155, e6, 1-11 (doi:10.4039/tce.2022.49).
• Lutz, H. 1986. Eine neue Unterfamilie der Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) aus dem mittel-eozänen Olschiefer der "Grube Messel" bei Darmstadt (Deutschland, S-Hessen). Senckenb. Leth. 67: 177-218 (page 184, see also)
• Rasnitsyn, A.P. 1969. Origin and evolution of lower Hymenoptera. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 123: 1–196.
• Westwood, J. O. 1854. Contributions to fossil entomology. Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 10: 378-396 (page 393, pl. 14, fig. 8 wing described)