Protrechina Wilson 1985
- 1. Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis CA, U. S. A. & Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institut für Spezielle Zoologie, Jena, Germany
- 2. Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis CA, U. S. A. & Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Nematology, University of Idaho, Moscow ID, U. S. A. & Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho, Moscow ID, U. S. A.
- 3. Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis CA, U. S. A. & School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, U. S. A.
Description
On the identity of † Protrechina Wilson:
Wilson (1985) described a genus putatively close to Paratrechina sensu lato (∼ Prenolepis genus group) from mid-Eocene Claiborne amber (Arkansas, 40.4–37.2 Ma; Saunders et al., 1974). This genus, † Protrechina, supposedly differs from Paratrechina s. l., Lepisiota Santschi and Brachymyrmex Mayr – among other, unstated formicines – by the absence of standing macrosetae on the mesosomal dorsum, a state similar to that observed for Metalasius gen.nov. as noted below. The genus has been variably treated as a lasiine (Bolton, 1994, 1995; LaPolla & Dlussky, 2010), a ‘prenolepidine’ (Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990), or as incertae sedis in the subfamily where it remains at present (Wilson, 1985; Dlussky & Fedoseeva 1988; Bolton, 2003; Ward et al., 2016). The type specimen of † Protrechina carpenteri Wilson, at the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard), should be reexamined to evaluate its tribal, and perhaps generic, placement. This would be particularly valuable given the approximately mid-Eocene origin of the Prenolepis genus group here inferred (Fig. 4; Table 5); such a study will be facilitated by use of micro-CT (e.g., Hita-Garcia et al., 2017; Barden et al., 2017b; Boudinot et al., in press), given the poor condition of the specimen reported by LaPolla & Dlussky (2010).
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- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.5975358 (DOI)
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- Journal article: 10.1111/syen.12522 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5975346 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF80FFD14372FF82FFF5FF95FF99D837 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Protrechina
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Wilson
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- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Protrechina Wilson, 1985 sec. Boudinot, Borowiec & Prebus, 2022
References
- Wilson, E. O. (1985) Ants from the Cretaceous and Eocene amber of North America. Psyche, 92, 205 - 216.
- Saunders, W. B., Mapes, R. H., Carpenter, F. M. & Elsik, W. C. (1974) Fossiliferous amber from the Eocene (Claiborne) of the Gulf coastal plain. GSA Bulletin, 85, 979 - 984.
- Bolton, B. (1994) Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World, p. 222. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
- Bolton, B. (1995) A New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World, p. 504. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
- LaPolla, J. S. & Dlussky, G. M. (2010) Review of fossil Prenolepis genus-group species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 112, 258 - 273.
- Holldobler, B. & Wilson, E. O. (1990) The Ants. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. xii + 732 pp.
- Dlussky, G. M. & Fedoseeva, E. B. (1988) Origin and early stages of evolution in ants [in Russian]. Pp. 70 - 144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) Cretaceous Biocenotic Crisis and Insect Evolution. [in Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp.
- Bolton, B. (2003) Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 71, 1 - 370.
- 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 Dinoponera. Zootaxa, 4072, 343 - 357. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / Zootaxa. 4072.3.4.
- Hita-Garcia, F., Fischer, G., Liu, C., Audisio, T. L. & Economo, E. P. (2017) Next-generation morphological character discovery and evaluation: an X-ray micro-CT enhanced revision of the ant genus Zasphinctus Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae) in the Afrotropics. ZooKeys, 693, 33 - 93.
- Barden, P., Herhold, H. W. & Grimaldi, D. A. (2017 b) A new genus of hell ants from the Cretaceous (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Haidomyrmecini) with a novel head structure. Systematic Entomology, 42, 837 - 846.