Formica gynocrates
Snelling & Buren, 1985
valid
Formica gynocrates
Snelling & Buren, 1985:
72, figs. 7-15 (w.q.m.)
U.S.A. (Michigan).
Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Michigan, Livingston, Edwin S. George Reserve, 5.viii.1972 (M. Talbot). Primary type depository: LACM.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers, paratype queens, paratype males (numbers not stated). Secondary type locality: same data as holotype but with “various other dates”, not specified. Secondary type depositories: AMNH, LACM, MCZC, USNM.
- Status as species: Wheeler et al., 1994: 306; Bolton, 1995b: 196; Coovert, 2005: 157.
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Coovert, G. A. 2005. The ants of Ohio. Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey (New Series) 15 (2):1-196. PDF
- Snelling, R. R.; Buren, W. F. 1985. Description of a new species of slave-making ant in the Formica sanguinea group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Great Lakes Entomologist 18:69-78. PDF
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J.; Kannowski, P. B. 1994. Checklist of ants of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Great Lakes Entomologist 26:297-310. PDF