Sicelomyrmex

†Sicelomyrmex; Temporal range: Late/Upper Miocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Sicilian amber, Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Gesomyrmecini
Genus:	†Sicelomyrmex; Wheeler, W.M., 1915
Type species
	Gesomyrmex corniger, now Sicelomyrmex corniger;
Diversity
	1 fossil species; (Species Checklist)

Identification

Distribution

This taxon is known from Sicilian amber, Italy (Late/Upper Miocene).

Castes

Nomenclature

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

†SICELOMYRMEX [Formicinae: Gesomyrmecini]
- †Sicelomyrmex Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 111. Type-species: †Gesomyrmex corniger, by original designation.

Taxonomic History

[†Sicilomyrmex: Brown & Carpenter, 1979: 423 (emendation of spelling).]
[Note: the emendation of spelling to †Sicilomyrmex proposed by Brown & Carpenter, 1979: 423, may be unnecessary. In various publications Wheeler uses both Sicelomyrmex and Sicilomyrmex, with the former being the original, and also the one he used in his 1929a review of the group. It may be that the genus was originally named for the Sicels (one of the original tribes of Sicily), rather than after the island itself. In consequence the maintenance of the original orthography is recommended here.]
†Sicelomyrmex in Camponotinae, Gesomyrmecini: Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 111.
†Sicelomyrmex in Formicinae, *Sicelomyrmecini: Wheeler, W.M. 1929a: 12; Brown & Carpenter, 1979: 423; Bolton, 1994: 51; Bolton, 1995b: 46.
†Sicelomyrmex in Formicinae, Gesomyrmecini: Donisthorpe, 1943g: 725; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 17; Bolton, 2003: 24, 109; Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 347.
†Sicelomyrmex as genus: all authors.
†Sicelomyrmex catalogue: Bolton, 1995b: 383.
†Sicelomyrmex references: Brown & Carpenter, 1979: 423 (review of genus).

References

Blaimer, B.B., Brady, S.G., Schultz, T.R., Lloyd, M.W., Fisher, B.L., & Ward, P.S. 2015. Phylogenomic methods outperform traditional multi-locus approaches in resolving deep evolutionary history: a case study of formicine ants. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15:271 (DOI 10.1186/s12862-015-0552-5).
Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 51, Sicilomyrmex in Formicinae, Sicilomyrmecini)
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 383, Sicilomyrmex in Formicinae, Sicilomyrmecini)
Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 5, 109, Sicilomyrmex in Formicinae, Gesomyrmecini)
Brown, W. L., Jr.; Carpenter, F. M. 1979 [1978]. A restudy of two ants from the Sicilian amber. Psyche (Camb.) 85: 417-423 (page 423, Sicilomyrmex in Formicinae, Sicilomyrmecini; [*Sicilomyrmex: Brown & Carpenter, 1979: 423 (emendation of spelling).])
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 77, Sicilomyrmex in Formicinae, Gesomyrmecini)
Donisthorpe, H. 1943h. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [concl.]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 721-737 (page 725, Sicilomyrmex in Formicinae, Gesomyrmecini)
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).
Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 111, Sicilomyrmex as genus; in Camponotinae, Gesomyrmecini)