Protonym: Formica microgyna var. rasilis
Authorship Wheeler, 1903g: 648
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Nearctic
Locality U.S.A. (Colorado)
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Colorado, Manitou, 11.vii.-21.viii.(1903?) (W.M. Wheeler) (by restriction of Wheeler, 1913i: 469). Primary type depositories: AMNH, LACM, MCZC.
Type notes 1) In the original description Wheeler cites 3 localities “in the neighborhood of Manitou”: Red Rock Cañon, Williams Cañon, and Ute Pass. 2) Other original syntype localities: Colorado, between Broadmoor and Cheyenne Cañon (W.M. Wheeler), Colorado, Pike’s Peak (W.M. Wheeler).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica microgyna rasilis Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Formica rasilis Wheeler, 1903
Original combination
Formica rasilis Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Formica densiventris Viereck, 1903