Myrmicium heerii

Myrmicium heerii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Pseudosiricidae
Genus:	Myrmicium
Species:	M. heerii
Binomial name
Myrmicium heerii Westwood, 1854

This species has been transferred to the family †Pseudosiricidae.

Nomenclature

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

• †heerii. †Myrmicium heerii Westwood, 1854: 396, pl. 18, fig. 21 (wing) GREAT BRITAIN.
  • [Genus misspelled as Myrmecium by Dalla Torre, 1893: 110.]
  • Combination in Myrmica: Giebel, 1856: 178; Dalla Torre, 1893: 110;
  • combination in †Pseudosirex: Handlirsch, 1906: 577.
  • Status as species: Giebel, 1856: 178; Scudder, 1891: 231; Dalla Torre, 1893: 110; Handlirsch, 1906: 577; Bolton, 1995b: 286.
  • Excluded from Formicidae; transferred to †Myrmiciidae (Symphyta): Maa, 1949: 17; Rasnitsyn, 1969: 17.
  • Excluded from Formicidae; transferred to †Pseudosiricidae (Symphyta): Handlirsch, 1906: 577; Abe & Smith, D.R. 1991: 53.

References

• Rasnitsyn, A.P. 1969. Origin and evolution of lower Hymenoptera. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 123: 1–196.