Formica rufa tahoensis

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

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Formica rufa tahoensis Creighton, 1940 junior synonym of current valid taxon Formica ravida Creighton, 1940

Formica rufa subsp. tahoensis Creighton, 1940a: 1, 7 (in key) (w.q.) U.S.A. (California, Nevada). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”), 5 syntype queens. Primary type localities: U.S.A.: California, Lake Tahoe (W.M. Wheeler) (invalid restriction of type locality by Creighton, 1950a: 488; no lectotype designated), California, nr Lake Tahoe (Tallac, Glen Alpine Springs, Fallen Leaf Lake, Angora Peak) (W.M. Wheeler), 1 queen U.S.A.: Nevada, Ormsby County (C.F. Baker). Primary type depositories: AMNH, LACM, MCZC.

[First available use of Formica truncicola integroides tahoensis Wheeler, 1917a; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
[Misspelled as takoensis by Emery, 1925d: 254.]
Cole, 1956g: 260 (q.m.)
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1925d: 254.
Subspecies of Formica rufa: Smith, 1951c: 870.
Subspecies of Formica integra: Creighton, 1950a: 488; Cole, 1956g: 260; Smith, 1958c: 156.
Status as species: Yensen et al., 1977: 185 (error).
Junior synonym of Formica haemorrhoidalis: Brown, 1965d: 181; Smith, 1979: 1458.
Junior synonym of Formica ravida: Bolton, 1995b: 205.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1965d. Studies on North American ants. I. The Formica integra subgroup. Entomological News 76:181-186. PDF
Cole, A. C., Jr. 1956g. Studies of Nevada ants. IV. Descriptions of sexual castes of three members of the rufa group of the genus Formica L. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 31:257-260. PDF
Creighton, W. S. 1940a. A revision of the North American variants of the ant Formica rufa. American Museum Novitates 1055:1-10. 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
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
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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