This history item belongs to Formica guineensis Fabricius, 1793

Its current taxon owner(s) is Pheidole guineensis

[Note (iii): Bolton, 1977: 70, 94, transferred the type material of Pheidole guineensis Fabricius, 1793 to genus Pheidole.] 

[Note (iii): {ref 122825}: 70, 94, transferred the type material of {taxac 443840} to genus {tax 429833}.]
  • Item type: taxt
  • Created at: 2025-04-10
  • Updated at: 2025-04-10
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Taxa belonging to this history item's protonym
Formica guineensis Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Pheidole guineensis (Fabricius, 1793)
Pheidole guineensis Species Valid
Tetramorium guineensis Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Pheidole guineensis (Fabricius, 1793)
Other history items belonging to Formica guineensis
#304211 Lectotype designation: Bolton, 1977: 94.
#304212 Combination in Myrmica: Roger, 1862c: 293.
#264597 Combination in Tetramorium: Mayr, 1862: 740.
#284108 Combination in Pheidole: Bolton, 1977: 94.
#313121 [Note (i): all records of the combination Tetramorium guineensis Fabricius, 1793 from Roger, 1862c: 293, and Mayr, 1862: 740, up to 1976, are misidentifications properly attributed to Tetramorium bicarinatum Nylander, 1846b.]
#301818 [Note (ii): all the following references (and many more) are miscombinations of Pheidole guineensis Fabricius, 1793 in Tetramorium, resulting from misidentifications in 1862 by Roger, 1862c: 293, and Mayr, 1862: 740: Roger, 1862c: 293; Mayr, 1862: 740; Roger, 1863b: 27; Mayr, 1863a: 456; Mayr, 1865: 89; Mayr, 1872: 151; Smith, 1879a: 675; Emery & Forel, 1879: 467; André, 1883a: 288; Mayr, 1884: 33; Mayr, 1886d: 453; Cresson, 1887: 261; Forel, 1891c: 150; Lameere, 1892: 67; Forel, 1893j: 382; Dalla Torre, 1893: 133; Emery, 1895d: 324; Emery, 1895i: 37; Forel, 1895b: 126; Forel, 1899b: 53; Forel, 1901c: 11; Forel, 1903a: 702; Bingham, 1903: 184; Wheeler, 1905c: 128; Forel, 1907f: 135; Emery, 1909f: 695; Wheeler, 1909d: 340; Forel, 1910c: 260; Stitz, 1910: 144; Wheeler, 1910a: 567; Wheeler, 1911a: 28; Wheeler, 1912a: 46; Forel, 1912a: 53; Forel, 1913b: 319; Forel, 1913l: 81; Wheeler, 1913b: 486; Wheeler, 1913e: 240; Forel, 1914d: 226; Emery, 1914f: 415; Wheeler & Mann, 1914: 38; Donisthorpe, 1915f: 339; Forel, 1916: 419; Crawley, 1916b: 370; Viehmeyer, 1916a: 138; Arnold, 1917: 306; Mann, 1919: 346; Wheeler, 1919d: 274; Wheeler, 1919e: 303; Wheeler, 1922: 896, 1030; Müller, 1923b: 101 (in key); Wheeler, 1924b: 109; Wheeler, 1924c: 251; Emery, 1924f: 278; Stitz, 1925c: 122; Stärcke, 1926a: 89 (in key); Borgmeier, 1927c: 110; Donisthorpe, 1927c: 391; Wheeler, 1927h: 97; Wheeler, 1928c: 26; Wheeler, 1928d: 115; Cheesman & Crawley, 1928: 521; Santschi, 1928a: 49; Santschi, 1928c: 69; Menozzi, 1929b: 3; Wheeler, 1929h: 61; Wheeler, 1930k: 71; Wheeler, 1932g: 17; Wheeler, 1933f: 143; Wheeler, 1934a: 177; Wheeler, 1934i: 14; Donisthorpe, 1935: 634; Röszler, 1935: 72; Wheeler, 1935g: 30; Wheeler, 1936g: 12; Santschi, 1937d: 235; Smith, 1937: 851; Teranishi, 1940: 34, 57; Yasumatsu, 1940c: 68; Novák & Sadil, 1941: 87 (in key); Smith, 1943b: 3 (in key); Kratochvíl, in Kratochvíl et al., 1944: 77 (in key); Donisthorpe, 1948b: 308; Weber, 1948b: 83; Donisthorpe, 1949b: 499; Creighton, 1950a: 291; Smith, 1951c: 823; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 175; Bernard, 1953b: 245; Arnold, 1958: 122; Brown, 1958h: 28; Linsley & Usinger, 1966: 175; Baltazar, 1966: 261; Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 71; Taylor, 1967b: 1094; Bernard, 1967a: 236; Yarrow, 1967: 28; Kempf, 1970a: 26; Kempf, 1972b: 249; Bolton & Collingwood, 1975: 4 (in key); Pisarski, 1975: 26; Kempf, 1975c: 368; Taylor, 1976a: 82; Smith, 1979: 1400; Barquín, 1981: 337; Hohmann et al., 1993: 157; Dlussky, 1994a: 54; Tiwari, 1999: 63 (error).]
#313122 (selected) [Note (iii): Bolton, 1977: 70, 94, transferred the type material of Pheidole guineensis Fabricius, 1793 to genus Pheidole.]
#313123 [Note (iv): Tetramorium bicarinatum Nylander, 1846b is the first available name for the misidentifications (Bolton, 1977: 70).]
#304213 Status as species: Latreille, 1802a: 285; Fabricius, 1804: 404; Smith, 1858a: 32; Bolton, 1977: 94; Bolton, 1995b: 322; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 48.