Formica maculata

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Formica maculata Geoffroy, 1785 incertae sedis in genus, unresolved junior homonym, unidentifiable

Formica maculata Geoffroy, 1785: 452 (w.?) FRANCE. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: France: vic. Paris (no collector’s name; A.F. Fourcroy?). Primary type depository: unknown (no material known to exist). Type notes: 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 88, Geoffroy’s non-Coleoptera material “an Mus. Autun”. 3) Fourcroy is not listed in Horn & Kahle, 1935, Horn & Kahle, 1937.

[Unresolved junior primary homonym of Camponotus maculatus Fabricius, 1782 (Bolton, 1995b: 198).]
Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 201.
Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 198.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Geoffroy, E. L. 1785. [Untitled. Descriptions of new taxa, attributable to Geoffroy.]. In: Fourcroy, A. F. de 1785. Entomologia parisiensis, sive catalogus insectorum quae in agro parisiensi reperiuntur. Pars secunda. Paris: Via et Aedibus Serpentineis, [1] + pp. 233-544.
Horn, W.; Kahle, I. 1935. Sammlungen, welche ihren Eigentümer gewechselt haben [Part 1]. Entomologische Beihefte aus Berlin-Dahlem 2:1-160.
Horn, W.; Kahle, I. 1937. Sammlungen, welche ihren Eigentümer gewechselt haben [Part 3: continued from Horne & Kahle 1936]. Entomologische Beihefte aus Berlin-Dahlem 4:297-388.

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