Formica nepticula

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Formica nepticula Wheeler, 1905 valid

Formica nepticula Wheeler, 1905d: 270 (w.q.m.) U.S.A. (Connecticut, Illinois). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated, “numerous”), 2 syntype males. Primary type localities: U.S.A.: Connecticut, Litchfield County, Colebrook, summit Mt Pisgah (ca 1400 ft) (W.M. Wheeler) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1913i: 477; no lectotype designated), U.S.A.: Illinois, Black Hawk Spring, nr Rockford (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC.

Status as species: Wheeler, 1906g: 17; Wheeler, 1910a: 570; Wheeler, 1913i: 475 (redescription); Wheeler, 1916r: 597; Emery, 1925d: 256; Buren, 1944a: 306; Creighton, 1950a: 505; Smith, 1951c: 866; Francoeur, 1977b: 208; Smith, 1979: 1463; Wheeler et al., 1994: 306; Bolton, 1995b: 199; Coovert, 2005: 153; Ellison et al., 2012: 165.

Citations

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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
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, G. C.; Wheeler, J.; Kannowski, P. B. 1994. Checklist of ants of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Great Lakes Entomologist 26:297-310. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1905d. New species of Formica. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21:267-274. 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
Wheeler, W. M. 1916r. Formicoidea. Formicidae. Pp. 577-601 in: Viereck, H. L. 1916. Guide to the insects of Connecticut. Part III. The Hymenoptera, or wasp-like insects, of Connecticut. Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey. Bulletin 22:1-824.

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