Formica defensor

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

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Formica defensor Smith, 1878 junior synonym of current valid taxon Formica rufibarbis Fabricius, 1793

Formica defensor Smith, 1878b: 11 (w.) UNKNOWN.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: unknown, “On the road across the Pamir, from Sarikol to Panja”. Primary type depository: unknown (not in BMNH or OXUM), certainly lost.

Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 194.
Junior synonym of Formica rufibarbis: Forel, 1894c: 403; Bingham, 1903: 335; Bolton, 1995b: 194.

Citations

Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. PDF
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
Forel, A. 1894c. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part IV. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 8:396-420. PDF
Smith, F. 1878b. Scientific results of the Second Yarkand Mission; based upon the collections and notes of the late Ferdinand Stoliczka, Ph.D. Hymenoptera. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing (Government of India), 22 pp. PDF

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