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Myrmecolacidae

Description

Myrmecolacidae is an insect family of the order Strepsiptera. There are four genera and about 98 species in this family. Like all strepsipterans, they have a parasitic mode of development with males parasitizing ants while the females develop inside Orthoptera. The sexes differ greatly in morphology making it very difficult to match females to the better catalogued museum specimens of males.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)7950https://www.gbif.org/species/7950
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)133938https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=133938
Rankfamily
Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Strepsiptera : Myrmecolacidae
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Ecdysozoa
-Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumMandibulata
-Pancrustacea
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
-CercofilataKukalová-Peck 1987
classInsectaLinnaeus 1758
-Dicondylia
-ParanotaliaSroka et al. 2014
subclassPterygotaBrauer 1885
-NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
-Holometabola
-Aparaglossata
-ColeopteridaKukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004
orderStrepsipteraKirby 1813
-EteostrepsipteraEngel 2016
suborderNeostrepsipteraEngel 2016
infraorderEustrepsipteraEngel 2016
-Stylopidia
-Stylopiformia
superfamilyStylopoideaKirby 1813
familyMyrmecolacidaeSaunders 1872
Scientific NameMyrmecolacidae
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Myrmecolacidaefamilybelongs to Stylopidiastated with evidenceKinzelbach and Lutz, 1985
Myrmecolacidaefamilybelongs to Strepsipterastated without evidenceCarpenter, 1992
Myrmecolacidaefamilybelongs to Stylopoideastated with evidenceKinzelbach and Pohl, 1994
Myrmecolacidaefamilybelongs to Stylopiformiastated with evidencePohl and Beutel, 2005
Myrmecolacidaefamilybelongs to Stylopoideastated with evidenceEngel, 2016
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)21
Extant Size (PBDB)5 (24%)
First Recorded Appearance56.0 - 47.8 Ma
Eocene
Environmentterrestrial (based on Insecta)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Arthropoda)
Taphonomychitin (based on Insecta)
Primary Reference (PBDB)F. M. Carpenter. 1992. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4:1-655
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmecolacidae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Caenocholax
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
546.2 Ma
Eocene
0 Ma
Extant
Kronomyrmecolax
genus
doubtful (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
156.0 Ma
Paleocene
56.0 Ma
Paleocene
Myrmecolax
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
220.4 Ma
Miocene
0 Ma
Extant
Palaeomyrmecolax
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
838.0 Ma
Eocene
38.0 Ma
Eocene
Stichotrema
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
548.6 Ma
Eocene
0 Ma
Extant

Obsolete Names

NameSourceTaxon RankTaxonomy
Stichotrematidae GBIFfamilyAnimalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Strepsiptera : Stichotrematidae

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1872Myrmecolacidae Saunders p. 34
1985Myrmecolacidae Kinzelbach and Lutz p. 600
1992Myrmecolacidae Carpenter
1994Myrmecolacidae Kinzelbach and Pohl
2005Myrmecolacidae Pohl and Beutel
2014Myrmecolacidae Kathirithamby and Engel p. 386
2016Myrmecolacidae Engel p. 164

References

Carpenter F. M. (1992) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4, 1-655
Kinzelbach R. K., Lutz H. (1985) Stylopid larva from the Eocene-a spotlight on the phylogeny of the Stylopids (Strepsiptera), Annals of the Entomological Society of America 78 5, 600-602
Kinzelbach R. K., Pohl H. (1994) The Fossil Strepsiptera (Insecta: Strepsiptera), Annals of the Entomological Society of America 87 1, 59-70
Engel M. S. (2016) Strepsiptera clade names, in A new twisted-wing parasitoid from mid-Cretaceous amber of Myanmar (Strepsiptera), Cretaceous Research 58, 160-167
Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney, 1989: Review of the Order Strepsiptera. Systematic Entomology, vol. 14, no. 1. 41-92. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Bohart, Richard M., 1941: A revision of the Strepsiptera with special reference to the species of North America. University of California Publications in Entomology, vol. 7, no. 6. 91-160. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney, and Steven J. Taylor, 2005: A new species of Halictophagus (Insecta: Strepsiptera: Halictophagidae) from Texas, and a checklist of Strepsiptera from the United States and Canada. Zootaxa, issue 1056. 1-18. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney, and Michael S. Engel, 2014: A revised key to the living and fossil families of Strepsiptera, with the description of a new family, Cretostylopidae. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, vol. 87, no. 4. 385-388. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney, and J. Spencer Johnston, 1992: Stylopization of Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Caenocholax fenyesi (Strepsiptera: Myrmecolacidae) in Texas. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, vol. 85, no. 3. 293-297. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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