Formica melanophthalma

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

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Formica melanophthalma Reich, 1793 incertae sedis in genus, unidentifiable

Formica melanophthalma Reich, 1793: 132 (no sex/caste given) FRENCH GUIANA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: indeterminate. Primary type locality: French Guiana: Cayenne (Le Blond). Primary type depository: unknown (no material known to exist). Type notes: 1) No indication of number of specimens or sex/caste is given. 2) Specimen(s) possibly in MNHN as Reich is attributed to the Natural History Society of Paris. 3) G.C. Reich is not mentioned in Horn & Kahle, 1935, Horn & Kahle, 1937.

Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 201.
Incertae sedis in Formicinae: Kempf, 1972b: 261.
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
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.
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Reich, G. C. 1793. Kurze Beschreibung neuen, oder noch wenig bekkanten Thiere, welche Herr Le Blond der naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Paris aus Cayenne als Geschenk überschikt hat. Magazin des Thierreichs 1:128-134. PDF

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