Formica morsei
Wheeler, 1906f:
39, pl. 4, fig. 1 (w.)
U.S.A. (Massachusetts).
Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “many”). Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Massachusetts, South Natick (A.P. Morse). Primary type depositories: AMNH, LACM, MCZC.
- Status as species: Wheeler, 1906g: 19; Wheeler, 1910a: 570; Wheeler, 1913i: 480 (redescription); Emery, 1925d: 256; Creighton, 1950a: 504; Smith, 1951c: 866; Smith, 1979: 1462; Bolton, 1995b: 199; Ellison et al., 2012: 162.
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- 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.
- 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. 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
- Wheeler, W. M. 1906f. New ants from New England. Psyche (Cambridge) 13:38-41. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1906g. Fauna of New England. 7. List of the Formicidae. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History 7:1-24. 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