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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Formicinae
›
Lasiini
›
Myrmecocystus
›
Myrmecocystus melligera
Myrmecocystus
melligera
(Llave, 1832)
incertae sedis
in genus, unidentifiable
Formica melligera
Llave, 1832
: 463 (w.) MEXICO (Guanajuato). Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: holotype Mexico: Guanajuato, 21.vii.1832 (
P. de la Llave
). Primary type depository: unknown (no material known to exist).
Combination in
Cataglyphis
:
Mayr, 1862
: 701.
Assumed combination in
Myrmecocystus
:
Forel, 1876
: 50 (in text);
McCook, 1881
: 69;
Forel, 1899b
: 129.
Status as species:
Mayr, 1862
: 701;
Mayr, 1863a
: 402;
Roger, 1863b
: 12;
Forel, 1876
: 50 (in text);
McCook, 1881
: 69;
Mayr, 1886d
: 424;
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 218.
Synonym of
Myrmecocystus mexicanus
:
Roger, 1862a
: 254;
Roger, 1863b
: 12;
Mayr, 1886d
: 424;
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 218;
Forel, 1899b
: 129.
Synonym of
Myrmecocystus melliger
or
Myrmecocystus mexicanus
:
Creighton, 1950a
: 444, 446;
Smith, 1951c
: 855, 856.
Unidentifiable taxon (possibly cognate with
Myrmecocystus melliger
):
Emery, 1893k
: 666;
Snelling, 1976
: 31.
Unidentifiable taxon;
incertae sedis
in
Myrmecocystus
:
Bolton, 1995b
: 275.
Obsolete combinations
Formica melligera
Citations
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Creighton, W. S.
1950a.
The ants of North America.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585.
PDF
Dalla Torre, K. W.
1893.
Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna).
Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp.
PDF
Emery, C.
1893k.
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamerikanischen Ameisenfauna.
Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 7:633-682.
PDF
Forel, A.
1876.
Études myrmécologiques en 1875 avec remarques sur un point de l'anatomie des coccides.
Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 14:33-62.
PDF
Forel, A.
1899b.
Formicidae. [part].
Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24.
PDF
Llave, P. de
1832.
Sobre las busileras u hormigas de miel.
Registro Trimestre; o Colección de Memorias de Historia, Literatura, Ciencias y Artes 1:455-463.
PDF
Mayr, G.
1862.
Myrmecologische Studien.
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12:649-776.
PDF
Mayr, G.
1863a.
Formicidarum index synonymicus.
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460.
PDF
Mayr, G.
1886d.
Die Formiciden der Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika.
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 36:419-464.
PDF
McCook, H. C.
1881.
The honey ants of the Garden of the Gods. [Combined].
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 33:17-88.
Roger, J.
1862a.
Einige neue exotische Ameisen-Gattungen und Arten.
Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 6:233-254.
PDF
Roger, J.
1863b.
Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten.
Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65.
PDF
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
Snelling, R. R.
1976.
A revision of the honey ants, genus
Myrmecocystus
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Science Bulletin 24:1-163.
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