Formica rasilis

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Formica rasilis Wheeler, 1903 junior synonym of current valid taxon Formica densiventris Viereck, 1903

Formica microgyna var. rasilis Wheeler, 1903g: 648 (w.q.m.) U.S.A. (Colorado). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Colorado, Manitou, 11.vii.-21.viii.(1903?) (W.M. Wheeler) (by restriction of Wheeler, 1913i: 469). Primary type depositories: AMNH, LACM, MCZC. Type notes: 1) In the original description Wheeler cites 3 localities “in the neighborhood of Manitou”: Red Rock Cañon, Williams Cañon, and Ute Pass. 2) Other original syntype localities: Colorado, between Broadmoor and Cheyenne Cañon (W.M. Wheeler), Colorado, Pike’s Peak (W.M. Wheeler).

Subspecies of Formica microgyna: Wheeler, 1910a: 570; Wheeler, 1913i: 468 (redescription); Wheeler, 1914c: 56; Wheeler, 1917a: 542; Emery, 1925d: 256; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 101; Cole, 1942: 381; Smith, 1951c: 866.
Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 506; Smith, 1958c: 158; Smith, 1967a: 372; Kutter, 1968c: 207; Smith, 1979: 1463; Allred, 1982: 475.
Junior synonym of Formica densiventris: MacKay et al., 1988: 114; Bolton, 1995b: 202.

Obsolete combinations

Formica microgyna rasilis

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. 1942. The ants of Utah. American Midland Naturalist 28:358-388. 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
Kutter, H. 1968c ("1967"). Liste sozialparasitischer Ameisen. Archives. Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg (n.s.)33:201-210.
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
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
Smith, M. R. 1967a. Family Formicidae. Pp. 343-374 in: Krombein, K. V.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1967. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalog. Second supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 2):1-584. PDF
Wesson, L. G.; Wesson, R. G. 1940. A collection of ants from southcentral Ohio. American Midland Naturalist 24:89-103. 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. 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. 1914c. Ants collected by W. M. Mann in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 22:37-61. 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

Extant: 0 valid subspecies (1 synonym)

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