Heydenius is a collective group genus of fossil mermithid nematodes from the Tertiary period that cannot be placed in extant genera.[1]
Heydenius Temporal range:
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Heydenius formicinus adjacent to its worker ant host in Baltic amber | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Nematoda |
Class: | Enoplea |
Order: | Mermithida |
Family: | Mermithidae |
Genus: | †Heydenius Taylor, 1935 |
Species | |
See text |
Species
editScientific name | Age | Type locality | Country | Host | Notes |
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Heydenius antiquus (von Heyden, 1860) Taylor, 1935 | Oligocene/Miocene | Rhine lignite | Germany | Hesthesis immortua von Heyden, 1862 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) |
Originally named Mermis antiqua von Heyden, 1860. |
Heydenius arachnius Poinar, 2012[2] | Miocene | Dominican amber | Dominican Republic | Araneae | |
Heydenius araneus Poinar, 2000[3] | Eocene | Baltic amber | Russia ( Kaliningrad Oblast) |
Araneae, Thomisidae | |
Heydenius brownii Poinar, 2001[4] | Eocene | Baltic amber | Russia ( Kaliningrad Oblast) |
Hemiptera, Achilidae | |
Heydenius cecidomyae Poinar, 2011[1] | Eocene | Baltic amber | Russia ( Kaliningrad Oblast) |
Diptera, Cecidomyiidae | |
Heydenius dipterophilus Poinar, 2011[1] | Miocene | Dominican amber | Dominican Republic | Diptera, Milichiidae | |
Heydenius dominicus Poinar, 1984[5] | Miocene | Dominican amber | Dominican Republic | Culex (Diptera, Culicidae) |
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Heydenius formicinus Poinar, 2002[6] | Eocene | Baltic amber | Russia ( Kaliningrad Oblast) |
Prenolepis henschei Mayr, 1868 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) |
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Heydenius lamprophilus Poinar, 2011[1] | Miocene | Dominican amber | Dominican Republic | Coleoptera, Lampyridae | |
Heydenius matutinus (Menge, 1866) Taylor, 1935 | Eocene | Baltic amber | Russia ( Kaliningrad Oblast) |
Diptera, Chironomidae | Originally named Mermis matutina Menge, 1866. |
Heydenius myrmecophila Poinar, Lachaud, Castillo & Infante, 2006[7] | Miocene | Dominican amber | Dominican Republic | Linepithema (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) |
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Heydenius neotropicus Poinar, 2011[1] | Miocene | Dominican amber | Dominican Republic | Diptera, Chironomidae | |
Heydenius phasmatophilus Poinar, 2012[2] | Eocene | Baltic amber | Russia ( Kaliningrad Oblast) |
Balticophasma (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae) |
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Heydenius podenasae Poinar, 2012[2] | Eocene | Baltic amber | Russia ( Kaliningrad Oblast) |
Lepidoptera | |
Heydenius psychodae Poinar, 2011[1] | Miocene | Dominican amber | Dominican Republic | Diptera, Psychodidae | |
Heydenius quadristriatus (Menge, 1872) Taylor, 1935 | Eocene | Baltic amber | Russia ( Kaliningrad Oblast) |
Unknown | Originally named Mermis quadristriata Menge, 1872. |
Heydenius saprophilus Poinar, 2011[1] | Miocene | Dominican amber | Dominican Republic | Diptera, Anisopodidae | |
Heydenius scatophilus Poinar, 2011[1] | Miocene | Dominican amber | Dominican Republic | Diptera, Scatopsidae | |
Heydenius sciarophilus Poinar, 2011[1] | Eocene | Baltic amber | Russia ( Kaliningrad Oblast) |
Diptera, Sciaridae | |
Heydenius simulphilus Poinar & Currie, 2019[8] | Eocene | Baltic amber | Russia ( Kaliningrad Oblast) |
Diptera, Simuliidae | |
Heydenius tabanae Poinar, 2011[1] | Late Pliocene (Piacenzian) |
Willershausen clay pit | Germany | Tabanus sudeticus Zeller, 1842 (Diptera, Tabanidae) |
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Heydenius trichorosus Poinar, 2012[2] | Eocene | Baltic amber | Russia ( Kaliningrad Oblast) |
Triaenodes balticus Wichard & Barnard, 2005 (Trichoptera, Leptoceridae) |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Poinar, G. O. (2011). "Appendix I. Taxonomic descriptions of previously known and new fossil nematode taxa". The Evolutionary History of Nematodes: As revealed in stone, amber and mummies. Nematology Monographs and Perspectives. Vol. 9. Brill Publishers. pp. 247–357. doi:10.1163/9789047428664_015. ISBN 9789004175211.
- ^ a b c d Poinar, G. O. (2012). "New fossil nematodes in Dominican and Baltic amber". Nematology. 14 (4): 483–488. doi:10.1163/156854111X612199. S2CID 86060924.
- ^ Poinar, G. O. (2000). "Heydenius araneus n.sp. (Nematoda: Mermithidae), a parasite of a fossil spider, with an examination of helminths from extant spiders (Arachnida: Araneae)". Invertebrate Biology. 119 (4): 388–393. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2000.tb00108.x. JSTOR 3227190.
- ^ Poinar, G. O. (2001). "Heydenius brownii sp. n. (Nematoda: Mermithidae) parasitising a planthopper (Homoptera: Achilidae) in Baltic amber". Nematology. 3 (8): 753–757. doi:10.1163/156854101753625263.
- ^ Poinar, G. O. (1984). "Heydenius dominicus n. sp. (Nematoda: Mermithidae), a Fossil Parasite from the Dominican Republic". The Journal of Nematology. 16 (4): 371–375. PMC 2618410. PMID 19294040.
- ^ Poinar, G. O. (2002). "First fossil record of nematode parasitism of ants; a 40 million year tale". Parasitology. 125 (5): 457–459. doi:10.1017/S0031182002002287. PMID 12458829. S2CID 41983613.
- ^ Poinar, G. O.; Lachaud, J.-P.; Castillo, A.; Infante, F. (2006). "Recent and fossil nematode parasites (Nematoda: Mermithidae) of Neotropical ants". Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 91 (1): 19–26. doi:10.1016/j.jip.2005.10.003. PMID 16300784.
- ^ Poinar, G. O.; Currie, D. C. (2019). "Mermithid nematode (Nematoda: Mermithidae) parasites of a fossil black fly (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Baltic amber". Nematology. 22 (6): 655–658. doi:10.1163/15685411-00003328. S2CID 213239194.