Formica comata
Wheeler, 1909e:
85 (w.q.m.)
U.S.A. (Colorado).
Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: 12 syntype workers, 5 syntype queens, 6 syntype males. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Colorado, Manitou, 26.vii.1906 (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depositories: AMNH, LACM, MCZC.
- Status as species: Wheeler, 1910a: 570; Wheeler, 1913i: 454 (redescription); Wheeler, 1917a: 541; Emery, 1925d: 252; Cole, 1937b: 138; Cole, 1942: 379; Creighton, 1950a: 483; Smith, 1951c: 861; Smith, 1967a: 370; Smith, 1979: 1457; Allred, 1982: 463; Bolton, 1995b: 193; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 340.
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.
- Cole, A. C., Jr. 1937b. An annotated list of the ants of Arizona (Hym.: Formicidae). [concl.]. Entomological News 48:134-140. PDF
- Cole, A. C., Jr. 1942. The ants of Utah. American Midland Naturalist 28:358-388. 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.; 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. 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
- Wheeler, W. M. 1909e. A decade of North American Formicidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 17:77-90. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. 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