Formica coloradensis
Creighton, 1940
valid
Formica rufa subsp. coloradensis
Creighton, 1940a:
1, 7 (in key) (w.q.)
U.S.A. (Colorado).
Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Colorado, Florissant, 8100 ft (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depositories: AMNH, LACM, MCZC.
- [First available use of Formica truncicola integroides coloradensis ; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
- [Formica rufa subsp. integra var. coloradensis Wheeler, 1910a: 570. Nomen nudum.]
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1917a: 539; Emery, 1925d: 254; Cole, 1936a: 38; Weber, 1943d: 343 (in list).
- Subspecies of Formica rufa: Cole, 1942: 381; Smith, 1951c: 868.
- Subspecies of Formica integroides: Creighton, 1950a: 489; Cole, 1954c: 165; Smith, 1958c: 156; Smith, 1967a: 371; Smith, 1979: 1458; Allred, 1982: 467 (in key).
- Status as species: Brown, 1965d: 185 (in text); Yensen et al., 1977: 184; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 81; MacKay et al., 1988: 111 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 193; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 339.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Allred, D. M. 1982. Ants of Utah. Great Basin Naturalist 42:415-511.
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1965d. Studies on North American ants. I. The Formica integra subgroup. Entomological News 76:181-186. PDF
- Cole, A. C., Jr. 1936a. An annotated list of the ants of Idaho (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Canadian Entomologist 68:34-39. PDF
- Cole, A. C., Jr. 1942. The ants of Utah. American Midland Naturalist 28:358-388. PDF
- Cole, A. C., Jr. 1954c. Studies of New Mexico ants. XI. The genus Formica with a description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 29:163-167. 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
- MacKay, W. P.; Lowrie, D.; Fisher, A.; MacKay, E. E.; Barnes, F. 1988. The ants of Los Alamos County, New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pp. 79-131 in: Trager, J. C. (ed.) 1988. Advances in myrmecology. Leiden: E. J. Brill, xxvii + 551 pp. PDF
- Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2002. The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp. 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.
- Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
- Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
- Smith, M. R. 1967a. Family Formicidae. Pp. 343-374 in: Krombein, K. V.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1967. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalog. Second supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 2):1-584. PDF
- Weber, N. A. 1943d. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93:263-389. PDF
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1986g. The ants of Nevada. Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, vii + 138 pp. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. 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
- Yensen, N. P.; Clark, W. H.; Francoeur, A. 1977. A checklist of Idaho ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 53:181-187. PDF