Formica ruficornis

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

Catalog › Formicidae › Formicinae › Formicini › Formica › Formica ruficornis

Formica ruficornis Gmelin, 1790 incertae sedis in genus, unidentifiable

Formica ruficornis Gmelin, 1790: 2805 (q.) EUROPE. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) queen. Primary type locality: unknown, “Habitat in Europa. Mus. Lesk.”. Primary type depository: unknown (no material known to exist). Type notes: 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Gmelin is not mentioned in Horn & Kahle, 1935, Horn & Kahle, 1937.

Status as species: Olivier, 1792: 505; Dalla Torre, 1893: 211.
Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 203.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Gmelin, J. F. 1790. Caroli a Linné, systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Tomus I. Pars V. Lipsiae [= Leipzig]: G. E. Beer, pp. 2225-3020. PDF
Horn, W.; Kahle, I. 1935. Sammlungen, welche ihren Eigentümer gewechselt haben [Part 1]. Entomologische Beihefte aus Berlin-Dahlem 2:1-160.
Horn, W.; Kahle, I. 1937. Sammlungen, welche ihren Eigentümer gewechselt haben [Part 3: continued from Horne & Kahle 1936]. Entomologische Beihefte aus Berlin-Dahlem 4:297-388.
Olivier, A. G. 1792. Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle. Insectes. Tome 6. (pt. 2). Paris: Panckoucke, pp. 369-704.

AntWeb AntWiki HOL Google Scholar

Formicidae subfamilies Formicinae tribes Formicini genera Formica species

show invalid