Formica microgyna
Wheeler, 1903g:
645, fig. 3 (w.q.m.)
U.S.A. (Colorado).
Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated, “many”), 1 syntype male. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Colorado, Manitou, 10-30.vii.(1903?) (W.M. Wheeler) (by restriction of Wheeler, 1913i: 467). Primary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC.
Type notes:
Other original syntype locality: U.S.A.: Colorado, Cheyenne Cañon, 10-30.vii.(1903?) (W.M. Wheeler).
- Status as species: Wheeler, 1903h: 656; Wheeler, 1910a: 570; Wheeler, 1913i: 465 (redescription); Wheeler, 1917a: 542; Emery, 1925d: 256; Creighton, 1950a: 502; Smith, 1951c: 866; Smith, 1958c: 156; Cole, 1966b: 22 (in key); Smith, 1967a: 371; Kutter, 1968c: 207; Letendre & Huot, 1972: 117; Francoeur, 1977b: 208; Smith, 1979: 1462; Allred, 1982: 469; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 82; MacKay et al., 1988: 115; Bolton, 1995b: 198; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 350.
- Senior synonym of Formica microgyna recidiva: Creighton, 1950a: 504; Smith, 1958c: 156; Smith, 1979: 1462; Bolton, 1995b: 198.
Junior synonyms
- Formica microgyna recidiva Wheeler, 1913
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Allred, D. M. 1982. Ants of Utah. Great Basin Naturalist 42:415-511.
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Cole, A. C., Jr. 1966b. Ants of the Nevada Test Site. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin. Biological Series 7(3):1-27. 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
- Francoeur, A. 1977b. Synopsis taxonomique et économique des fourmis du Québec (Formicidae, Hymenoptera). Annales de la Société Entomologique du Québec 22:205-212. PDF
- Kutter, H. 1968c ("1967"). Liste sozialparasitischer Ameisen. Archives. Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg (n.s.)33:201-210.
- Letendre, M.; Huot, L. 1972. Considérations préliminaires en vue de la revision taxonomique des fourmis du groupe microgyna, genre Formica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique du Québec 17:117-132. PDF
- MacKay, W. P.; Lowrie, D.; Fisher, A.; MacKay, E. E.; Barnes, F. 1988. The ants of Los Alamos County, New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pp. 79-131 in: Trager, J. C. (ed.) 1988. Advances in myrmecology. Leiden: E. J. Brill, xxvii + 551 pp. PDF
- Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2002. The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp. 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. 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
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- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1986g. The ants of Nevada. Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, vii + 138 pp. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1903g. Extraordinary females in three species of Formica, with remarks on mutation in the Formicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 19:639-651. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1903h. Some new gynandromorphous ants, with a review of the previously recorded cases. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 19:653-683. 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