Formica californica

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World

by Barry Bolton

Myrmecocystus melliger subsp. californicus Creighton, 1950aCreighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. [1950-04] PDF 123910: 445 (w.) U.S.A. Nearctic. AntWeb AntWiki

[First available use of Myrmecocystus melliger mimicus californicus Cole, 1936bCole, A. C., Jr. 1936b. Descriptions of seven new western ants. (Hymenop.: Formicidae). Entomological News 47:118-121. [1936-05-08] PDF 123686: 118; unavailable name.].
[Unresolved junior secondary homonym of Formica californica Wheeler, 1917aWheeler, W. M. 1917a. The mountain ants of western North America. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 52:457-569. [1917-01] PDF 130116:543 (Bolton, 1995bBolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. [1995-10] 122860: 192).].
Combination in Formica: Snelling, 1969bSnelling, R. R. 1969b. Taxonomic notes on the Myrmecocystus melliger complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science (Los Angeles) 170:1-9. [1969-06-30] PDF 128888: 2.
[Identity and status of this taxon have not been ascertained.].
[Note: identity and status of this taxon have not been ascertained. It is therefore included in Formica as a taxon at species-rank, to dissociate it from its original combination in Myrmecocystus, and to separate it from its original rank as a subspecies of melliger.].