Myrmeciites herculeanus

†Myrmeciites herculeanus Temporal range: Ypresian, Early Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl McAbee, British Columbia, Canada
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmeciinae
Tribe:	collective group name
Genus:	Myrmeciites
Species:	†M. herculeanus
Binomial name
†Myrmeciites herculeanus Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006

Distribution

This taxon was described from McAbee, British Columbia, Canada (Ypresian, Early Eocene).

British Colombian fossil localities containing ants (Archibald et al., 2018).

Nomenclature

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

• †herculeanus. †Myrmeciites herculeanus Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006: 500, figs. 12, 17G (w.) CANADA (Eocene).

References

• Archibald, S.B., Cover, S.P. & Moreau, C.S. 2006. Bulldog ants of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands and history of the subfamily. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99: 486-523.
• 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, 205-257 (doi:10.4039/tce.20*Jouault, C., Nel, A. 2021. The oldest Cenozoic ant fossil: †Tyrannomecia gen. nov. (Formicidae: Myrmeciinae) from the Palaeocene Menat Formation (France). Historical Biology, 1–8 (doi:[https://doi.org/10.1080%2F08912963.2021.2010192 10.1080/08912963.2021.2010192).

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• Mera-Rodríguez, D., Jourdan, H., Ward, P.S., Shattuck, S., Cover, S.P., Wilson, E.O., Rabeling, C. 2023. Biogeography and evolution of social parasitism in Australian Myrmecia bulldog ants revealed by phylogenomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 186, 107825 (doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107825).