Formica occulta

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Formica occulta Francoeur, 1973 valid

Formica occulta Francoeur, 1973: 94, figs. 132-147 (w.q.m.) U.S.A. (Colorado). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Colorado, El Paso County, Colorado Springs, 20.vii.1903 (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 19 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens. Secondary type locality: 2 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen with same data as holotype, 17 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen with same data as holotype but 11.viii.1903 (W.M. Wheeler). Secondary type depository: AFPC, MCZC. Type notes: Francoeur does not specify the collection date of the holotype.

Status as species: Francoeur, 1975: 260; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 23; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1977b: 13 (in key); Yensen et al., 1977: 185; Smith, 1979: 1454; Allred, 1982: 473; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 88 (in key); MacKay et al., 1988: 116; Bolton, 1995b: 200; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 360.

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.
Francoeur, A. 1973. Révision taxonomique des espèces néarctiques du groupe fusca, genre Formica (Formicidae, Hymenoptera). Mémoires de la Société Entomologique du Québec 3:1-316. PDF
Francoeur, A. 1975 ("1974"). Notes for a revision of the ant genus Formica. 1. New identifications and synonymies for some nearctic specimens from Emery, Forel and Mayr collections. Entomological News 85:257-264. PDF
Hunt, J. H.; Snelling, R. R. 1975. A checklist of the ants of Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 10:20-23. 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.
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1977b. North Dakota ants updated. Reno, Nevada: published by the authors, 27 pp. PDF
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1986g. The ants of Nevada. Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, vii + 138 pp. PDF
Yensen, N. P.; Clark, W. H.; Francoeur, A. 1977. A checklist of Idaho ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 53:181-187. PDF

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