Formica (Formica) knighti
Buren, 1944a:
303 (w.)
U.S.A. (Iowa).
Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Iowa, nr Bonaparte, 13.vii.1941 (W.F. Buren). Primary type depository: USNM.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated, “numerous”). Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: ISUI, LACM, USNM.
- Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 502; Smith, 1951c: 865; Smith, 1979: 1462; Bolton, 1995b: 197; Ellison et al., 2012: 160.
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Buren, W. F. 1944a. A list of Iowa ants. Iowa State College Journal of Science 18:277-312. PDF
- Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
- Ellison, A. M.; Gotelli, N. J.; Farnsworth, E. J.; Alpert, G. D. 2012. A field guide to the ants of New England. New Haven: Yale University Press, xv + 398 pp.
- 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