Paramyrmica colax
Cole, 1957a:
37, fig. 1 (w.q.)
U.S.A. (Texas).
Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Texas, Jeff Davis County, Davis Mts, Limpia Canyon, ca 5400 ft, 11.vi.1956, TX-59 (A.C. Cole). Primary type depository: LACM.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 238 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: AMNH, BMNH, FMNH, LACM, MCZC, MTAC, OSUC, USNM.
- Wheeler & Wheeler, 1959b: 219 (l.)
- Combination in Myrmica: Bolton, 1988a: 4
- Status as species: Kutter, 1968c: 202; Smith, 1967a: 350; Smith, 1979: 1351; Bolton, 1988a: 4 (in table); Bolton, 1995b: 278; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 158.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1988a. A new socially parasitic Myrmica, with a reassessment of the genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 13:1-11. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Cole, A. C., Jr. 1957a. Paramyrmica, a new North American genus of ants allied to Myrmica Latreille. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 32:37-42. PDF
- Kutter, H. 1968c ("1967"). Liste sozialparasitischer Ameisen. Archives. Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg (n.s.)33:201-210.
- 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.
- 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
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1959b. The larva of Paramyrmica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 34:219-220. PDF