Formica rufifrons

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

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Formica rufifrons Smith, 1860 an obsolete combination of Colobopsis rufifrons (Smith, 1860)

Formica rufifrons Smith, 1860b: 95 (w.q.) INDONESIA (Bacan). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 1 syntype worker, 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Bachian (= Bacan I.), “Bac.” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM. Type notes: 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 459, says no type-specimens present in BMNH or OXUM. 2) Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978, cites 1 worker, 1 queen in OXUM.

Citations

Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. PDF
Smith, F. 1860b. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the islands of Bachian, Kaisaa, Amboyna, Gilolo, and at Dory in New Guinea. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 5(17b)(suppl. to vol. 4):93-143. PDF

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