Formica albipennis

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Formica albipennis Fabricius, 1793 incertae sedis in genus, unidentifiable

Formica albipennis Fabricius, 1793: 354 (m.) VIRGIN IS (St Croix). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) male. Primary type locality: Virgin Is: St Croix I. (“Habitat in Insula St. Crucis Dr Pflug”). Primary type depository: perhaps ZMUK. Type notes: 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Zimsen, 1964: 427, says 1 specimen is present in ZMUK; may not be type material.

Combination in Lasius: Fabricius, 1804: 417.
Combination in Ponera: Latreille, 1818b: 570; Dalla Torre, 1893: 37.
Combination in Formica: Smith, 1858a: 50.
Status as species: Latreille, 1802a: 278; Fabricius, 1804: 417; Smith, 1858a: 50; Mayr, 1863a: 447; Dalla Torre, 1893: 37; Emery, 1911e: 116.
Incertae sedis in Ponerinae: Kempf, 1972b: 260.
Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 191.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Fabricius, J. C. 1793. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonimis, locis observationibus, descriptionibus. Tome 2. Hafniae [= Copenhagen]: C. G. Proft, 519 pp. PDF
Fabricius, J. C. 1804. Systema Piezatorum secundum ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Brunswick: C. Reichard, xiv + 15-439 + 30 pp. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Latreille, P. A. 1802a. Histoire naturelle des fourmis, et recueil de mémoires et d'observations sur les abeilles, les araignées, les faucheurs, et autres insectes. Paris: Impr. Crapelet (chez T. Barrois), xvi + 445 pp. PDF
Latreille, P. A. 1818b. Ponère. Pp. 569-570 in: Société de Naturalistes et d'Agriculteurs 1818. Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. Nouvelle édition. Tome XXVII. Paris: Déterville, 586 pp. PDF
Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF
Zimsen, E. 1964. The type material of I. C. Fabricius. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 656 pp. PDF

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