Formica montigena

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Formica montigena Wheeler, 1904 junior synonym of current valid taxon Formica dakotensis Emery, 1893

Formica montigena Wheeler, 1904i: 374 (w.q.m.) U.S.A. (New Mexico). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated (“a great many”), 1 syntype queen, 4 syntype males. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Colorado, Ute Pass (W.M. Wheeler) (by restriction of Creighton, 1950a: 486). Primary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC. Type notes: 1) Other original syntype localities: workers, males U.S.A.: Colorado, North Cheyenne Canyon (W.M. Wheeler), Colorado, Pike’s Peak (W.M. Wheeler), workers, queen Colorado, Pike’s Peak, 17.ix.1903 (T.D.A. Cockerell). 2) Wheeler, 1913i: 464, inadvertently restricted the type locality to two localities: Ute Pass and Pike’s Peak.

Subspecies of Formica dakotensis: Wheeler, 1913i: 463; Wheeler, 1917a: 541; Emery, 1925d: 252; Cole, 1936a: 37; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944: 260; Buren, 1944a: 303; Creighton, 1950a: 486; Smith, 1951c: 862; Smith, 1958c: 154 (error); Kutter, 1968c: 207 (error).
Junior synonym of Formica dakotensis: Wheeler, 1908i: 642 (in text); Brown, 1957f: 167 (in text); Smith, 1967a: 371; Smith, 1979: 1457; Bolton, 1995b: 199; Coovert, 2005: 151.

Citations

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Buren, W. F. 1944a. A list of Iowa ants. Iowa State College Journal of Science 18:277-312. PDF
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Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Kutter, H. 1968c ("1967"). Liste sozialparasitischer Ameisen. Archives. Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg (n.s.)33:201-210.
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
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, E. W. 1944. The ants of North Dakota. North Dakota Historical Quarterly 11:231-271. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1904i. A new type of social parasitism among ants. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 20:347-375. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1908i. The ants of Casco Bay, Maine, with observations on two races of Formica sanguinea Latreille. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:619-645. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1913i. A revision of the ants of the genus Formica (Linné) Mayr. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 53:379-565. PDF
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