Dissimulodorylus Sosiak, Borowiec & Barden, 2022

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Rank
GENUS: Published in
Sosiak, C. E.; Borowiec, M. L.; Barden, P. (2022). An Eocene army ant. Biology Letters. 18(11): a20220398.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia: phylum
Arthropoda: class
Insecta: order
Hymenoptera: family
Formicidae: genus
Dorylus

diagnosis

Diagnosis: Worker. Dissimulodorylus can be distinguished from most doryline genera by the combination of lack of eyes, complete pronotomesopleural suture, propodeal spiracle positioned high on the propodeum and single waist segment. These characteristics make it most like Dorylus, which can be differentiated by the presence of an impressed pygidial field and lack of fused, dorsoventrally flat, overhanging and triangularly shaped frontal lobes characteristic for this fossil.

etymology

Etymology: From Latin ‘ dissimulo’ meaning to conceal, hide or disregard, in reference to the type specimen eluding description for likely 80 years.

type_taxon

Type species: Dissimulodorylus perseus sp. nov.

Name

Homonyms: Dissimulodorylus Sosiak, Borowiec & Barden, 2022

Bibliographic References

Sosiak, C. E.; Borowiec, M. L.; Barden, P. (2022). An Eocene army ant. Biology Letters. 18(11): a20220398.
Sosiak, C. E.; Borowiec, M. L.; Barden, P. (2023). Retraction: An Eocene army ant. Biology Letters. 19(3): a0059. 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0059