Formica rufa melanotica

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

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Formica rufa melanotica Creighton, 1940 junior synonym of current valid taxon Formica obscuripes Forel, 1886

Formica rufa subsp. melanotica Creighton, 1940a: 1, 7 (in key), fig. 1 (w.) U.S.A. (Wisconsin). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Wisconsin (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: MSNG.

[First available use of Formica rufa obscuriventris melanotica Emery, 1893k; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1910a: 570; Wheeler, 1913i: 392 (in key), 432; Wheeler, 1917a: 537; Emery, 1925d: 254; Smith, 1928c: 279; Cole, 1936a: 37.
Subspecies of Formica rufa: Cole, 1942: 380; Buren, 1944a: 302; Smith, 1951c: 869.
Junior synonym of Formica obscuripes: Creighton, 1950a: 492; Smith, 1958c: 157; Smith, 1979: 1460; Bolton, 1995b: 198; Coovert, 2005: 150.

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
Cole, A. C., Jr. 1936a. An annotated list of the ants of Idaho (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Canadian Entomologist 68:34-39. PDF
Cole, A. C., Jr. 1942. The ants of Utah. American Midland Naturalist 28:358-388. PDF
Coovert, G. A. 2005. The ants of Ohio. Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey (New Series) 15 (2):1-196. PDF
Creighton, W. S. 1940a. A revision of the North American variants of the ant Formica rufa. American Museum Novitates 1055:1-10. PDF
Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
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. 1928c. An additional annotated list of the ants of Mississippi. With a description of a new species of Aphaenogaster (Hym.: Formicidae) (continued from page 246). Entomological News 39:275-279. PDF
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
Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1913i. A revision of the ants of the genus Formica (Linné) Mayr. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 53:379-565. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1917a. The mountain ants of western North America. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 52:457-569. PDF

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