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Formica exsectoides Forel, 1886 valid

Formica exsectoides Forel, 1886b: xxxviii (w.q.) U.S.A. (New Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: U.S.A.: New Hampshire (received from Denny, 1877) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1913i: 483; no lectotype designated), U.S.A.: Connecticut (received from Denny, 1877), U.S.A.: Pennsylvania, Alleghenies (H.C. MacCook). Primary type depository: MHNG.

Emery, 1893k: 653 (m.)
Status as species: Mayr, 1886d: 425; Cresson, 1887: 256; Dalla Torre, 1893: 195; Emery, 1893k: 653; Wheeler, 1905j: 400; Wheeler, 1906g: 17; Wheeler, 1908i: 623; Wheeler, 1910a: 570; Wheeler, 1913i: 481 (redescription); Wheeler, 1916r: 596; Wheeler, 1917a: 544; Emery, 1925d: 257; Wing, 1939: 165; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 101; Buren, 1944a: 307; Creighton, 1950a: 513; Smith, 1951c: 862; Cole, 1954c: 166; Smith, 1958c: 155; Smith, 1967a: 371; Kutter, 1968c: 207; Francoeur, 1977b: 208; Smith, 1979: 1456; DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 147; Wheeler et al., 1994: 306; Bolton, 1995b: 194; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 343; Coovert, 2005: 145; Ellison et al., 2012: 154.
Senior synonym of Formica exsectoides davisi: Creighton, 1950a: 513; Smith, 1958c: 155; Smith, 1979: 1456; Bolton, 1995b: 194; Coovert, 2005: 145.
Senior synonym of Formica exsectoides hesperia: Creighton, 1950a: 513; Smith, 1958c: 155; Smith, 1979: 1456; Bolton, 1995b: 194.

Junior synonyms

Formica exsectoides davisi Wheeler, 1913
Formica exsectoides hesperia Wheeler, 1913

Obsolete combinations

Formica exsectoides exsectoides

Citations

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