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Extinct genus of roundworms

Heydenius
Temporal range: Tertiary PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Heydenius formicinus adjacent to its worker ant host in Baltic amber
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Enoplea
Order: Mermithida
Family: Mermithidae
Genus: †Heydenius
Taylor, 1935
Species

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Heydenius is a collective group genus of fossil mermithid nematodes from the Tertiary period that cannot be placed in extant genera.

Species

Scientific name Age Type locality Country Host Notes
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 Miocene Dominican amber  Dominican Republic Araneae
Heydenius araneus Poinar, 2000 Eocene Baltic amber  Russia
( Kaliningrad Oblast) 		Araneae, Thomisidae
Heydenius brownii Poinar, 2001 Eocene Baltic amber  Russia
( Kaliningrad Oblast) 		Hemiptera, Achilidae
Heydenius cecidomyae Poinar, 2011 Eocene Baltic amber  Russia
( Kaliningrad Oblast) 		Diptera, Cecidomyiidae
Heydenius dipterophilus Poinar, 2011 Miocene Dominican amber  Dominican Republic Diptera, Milichiidae
Heydenius dominicus Poinar, 1984 Miocene Dominican amber  Dominican Republic Culex
(Diptera, Culicidae)
Heydenius formicinus Poinar, 2002 Eocene Baltic amber  Russia
( Kaliningrad Oblast) 		Prenolepis henschei Mayr, 1868
(Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
Heydenius lamprophilus Poinar, 2011 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 Miocene Dominican amber  Dominican Republic Linepithema
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Heydenius neotropicus Poinar, 2011 Miocene Dominican amber  Dominican Republic Diptera, Chironomidae
Heydenius phasmatophilus Poinar, 2012 Eocene Baltic amber  Russia
( Kaliningrad Oblast) 		Balticophasma
(Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae)
Heydenius podenasae Poinar, 2012 Eocene Baltic amber  Russia
( Kaliningrad Oblast) 		Lepidoptera
Heydenius psychodae Poinar, 2011 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 Miocene Dominican amber  Dominican Republic Diptera, Anisopodidae
Heydenius scatophilus Poinar, 2011 Miocene Dominican amber  Dominican Republic Diptera, Scatopsidae
Heydenius sciarophilus Poinar, 2011 Eocene Baltic amber  Russia
( Kaliningrad Oblast) 		Diptera, Sciaridae
Heydenius simulphilus Poinar & Currie, 2019 Eocene Baltic amber  Russia
( Kaliningrad Oblast) 		Diptera, Simuliidae
Heydenius tabanae Poinar, 2011 Late Pliocene
(Piacenzian) 		Willershausen clay pit  Germany Tabanus sudeticus Zeller, 1842
(Diptera, Tabanidae)
Heydenius trichorosus Poinar, 2012 Eocene Baltic amber  Russia
( Kaliningrad Oblast) 		Triaenodes balticus Wichard & Barnard, 2005
(Trichoptera, Leptoceridae)

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Poinar, G. O. (2012). "New fossil nematodes in Dominican and Baltic amber". Nematology. 14 (4): 483–488. doi:10.1163/156854111X612199. S2CID 86060924.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
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