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Mianeuretus
| †Mianeuretus Temporal range: 48–34 Ma Lutetian, Middle Eocene to Late Eocene | |
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| Mianeuretus mirabilis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Aneuretinae |
| Tribe: | Aneuretini |
| Genus: | †Mianeuretus Carpenter, 1930 |
| Type species | |
| Mianeuretus mirabilis | |
| Diversity | |
| 2 fossil species (Species Checklist)  Mianeuretus mirabilis Holotype queen | |
There are two fossil species in this genus, Mianeuretus mirabilis, known from Florissant shale (Oligocene) in the United Sates and the other species Mianeuretus eocenicus from Middle Eocene (Lutetian) Green River Formation, Colorado, USA. At this time Mianeuretus is placed within the Aneuretinae.
Identification
Female. - Moderate size; head distinctly longer than broad, rounded, slightly narrowed anteriorly; sides convex; eyes large, ocelli present; mandibles triangular, with blunt teeth; antennae slender, with eleven subequal segments; thorax about as broad as the head; petiole much longer than broad, surmounted posteriorly by a small node; gaster of moderate size. (Venation unknown)
Distribution
One specimen from Florissant, Colorado, United States (Late Eocene) and the other from Green River Formation, Colorado, United States (Lutetian, Middle Eocene).
Castes
queen, worker
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †MIANEURETUS [Aneuretinae]
- †Mianeuretus Carpenter, 1930: 38. Type-species: †Mianeuretus mirabilis, by original designation.
References
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 15, Mianeuretus in Aneuretinae, Aneuretini)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 35, Mianeuretus in Aneuretinae, Aneuretini)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 80, Mianeuretus in Aneuretinae, Aneuretini)
- Carpenter, F. M. 1930. The fossil ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 70: 1-66 (page 38, Mianeuretus in Dolichoderinae, Aneuretini)
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. (page 78, Mianeuretus in Aneuretinae, Aneuretini)
- Dlussky, G.M., Rasnitsyn, A.P. 2003. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Formation Green River and some other Middle Eocene deposits of North America. Russian Entomological Journal 11(4): 411-436.
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp. (page 17, Mianeuretus in Aneuretinae, Aneuretini)
- Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol. 112:i-xix, 1-241. (page 2, Mianeuretus in Aneuretinae, Aneuretini)
- Snelling, R. R. 1981. Systematics of social Hymenoptera. Pp. 369-453 in: Hermann, H. R. (ed.) Social insects. Volume 2. New York: Academic Press, xiii + 491 pp. (page 401, Mianeuretus in Aneuretinae, Aneuretini)
- Ward, P.S., Brady, S.G., Fisher, B.L. & Schultz, T.R. 2010. Phylogeny and biogeography of Dolichoderinae ants: effects of data partitioning and relict taxa on historical inference. Systematic Biology 59: 342-362 [1]
- Wilson, E. O.; Eisner, T.; Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1956. Aneuretus simoni Emery, a major link in ant evolution. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 115: 81-99 (page 93, Mianeuretus in Aneuretinae, Aneuretini)