Formica binodis

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Formica binodis Forskål, 1775 incertae sedis in genus, unresolved junior homonym, unidentifiable

Formica binodis Forskål, 1775: xxiii (no sex/caste given) NO LOCALITY GIVEN.

Primary type information: Primary type material: unknown (no sex/caste indicated). Primary type locality: not given, perhaps Saudi Arabia or Egypt. Primary type depository: unknown (no material known to exist). Type notes: This material may be the same as Messor binodis Fabricius, 1775; Fabricius refers to Forskål as the collector, here and in Fabricius, 1782: 491.

[Unresolved junior primary homonym of Tetramorium binodis Linnaeus, 1763.]
[Note: Emery, 1892c: 160, suggested Formica binodis Forskål, 1775 may be, "una forma dell" Messor barbarus Linnaeus, 1767.]
Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica.

Citations

Emery, C. 1892c ("1891"). Note sinonimiche sulle formiche. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 23:159-167. PDF
Fabricius, J. C. 1782 ("1781"). Species insectorum exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma, auctorum loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Tome I. Hamburgi et Kilonii [= Hamburg and Kiel]: C. E. Bohn, 552 pp.
Forskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post mortum auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Hauniae [= Copenhagen]: Moeller, xxxiv + 164 pp.

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