Formica rufa aggerans

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Formica rufa aggerans Wheeler, 1912 junior synonym of current valid taxon Formica obscuripes Forel, 1886

Formica rufa subsp. aggerans Wheeler, 1912c: 90 (w.q.) U.S.A. (Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: U.S.A.: Colorado (no further data) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1913i: 431; no lectotype designated), U.S.A.: Nebraska (no further data), U.S.A.: Dakota (no further data). Primary type depository: MCZC.

Replacement name for Formica rufa obscuriventris rubiginosa Emery, 1893k; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.
Wheeler, 1913i: 430 (q.m.)
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1917a: 540.
Subspecies of Formica rufa: Wheeler, 1913i: 430 (redescription); Cole, 1936a: 37.
Junior synonym of Formica obscuripes: Forel, 1914c: 619; Emery, 1925d: 254; Creighton, 1940a: 1; Buren, 1944a: 301; Creighton, 1950a: 492; Smith, 1979: 1460; Bolton, 1995b: 191; Coovert, 2005: 150.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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Cole, A. C., Jr. 1936a. An annotated list of the ants of Idaho (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Canadian Entomologist 68:34-39. PDF
Coovert, G. A. 2005. The ants of Ohio. Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey (New Series) 15 (2):1-196. PDF
Creighton, W. S. 1940a. A revision of the North American variants of the ant Formica rufa. American Museum Novitates 1055:1-10. PDF
Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Forel, A. 1914c. Einige amerikanische Ameisen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1914:615-620. PDF
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Wheeler, W. M. 1912c. New names for some ants of the genus Formica. Psyche (Cambridge) 19:90. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1913i. A revision of the ants of the genus Formica (Linné) Mayr. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 53:379-565. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1917a. The mountain ants of western North America. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 52:457-569. PDF

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