Formica ruficeps

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Formica ruficeps Motschoulsky, 1863 incertae sedis in genus, unresolved junior homonym, unidentifiable

Formica ruficeps Motschoulsky, 1863: 12 (in text) (w.) INDONESIA (Java). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Java (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: unknown. Type notes: 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1936: 183, Motschoulsky material is scattered through DEIB, MNHU, ZISP, ZMUM, and a museum in Riga, Latvia.

[Unresolved junior primary homonym of Camponotus ruficeps Fabricius, 1804 (Bolton, 1995b: 203).]
Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 211; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 201.
Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 203.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Horn, W.; Kahle, I. 1936. Sammlungen, welche ihren Eigentümer gewechselt haben [Part 2: continued from Horne & Kahle 1935]. Entomologische Beihefte aus Berlin-Dahlem 3:161-296.
Motschoulsky, V. de 1863. Essai d'un catalogue des insectes de l'île Ceylan (suite). Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 36(3):1-153.

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