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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
†Formiciinae
›
†Formiciini
›
†
Formicium
†
Formicium
Westwood, 1854
collective group name, valid neuter
†
Formicium
Westwood, 1854
: 393
†
Formicium
Westwood, 1854
. Type-species:
†
Formicium brodiei
Westwood, 1854
.
†
Formicium
in
†Pseudosiricidae
:
Handlirsch, 1906
: 577;
Abe & Smith, 1991
: 34 (in error).
†
Formicium
in
Formicidae
:
Cockerell, 1920
: 279.
†
Formicium
in
Formicidae
,
†Formiciinae
:
Lutz, 1986
: 181;
Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990
: 17;
Lutz, 1990
: 61;
Bolton, 1994
: 187;
Bolton, 1995b
: 30;
Bolton, 2003
: 76, 262.
†
Formicium
as collective group name in
†Formiciinae
:
Archibald
et al.
, 2011
: 3681.
†
Formicium
as junior synonym of
Ponera
:
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 37.
†
Formicium
as junior synonym of
†
Pseudosirex
:
Handlirsch, 1906
: 577 (error).
†
Formicium
as senior synonym of
†
Pseudosirex
:
Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990
: 17 (error).
†
Formicium
as genus:
Cockerell, 1920
: 279;
Lutz, 1986
: 182;
Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990
: 17;
Lutz, 1990
: 61; subsequent authors;
Bolton, 1995b
: 30, 206;
Bolton, 2003
: 76, 262.
†
Formicium
as senior synonym of
†
Eoponera
:
Lutz, 1986
: 182;
Bolton, 1995b
: 30;
Bolton, 2003
: 262.
†
Formicium
as senior synonym of
†
Megapterites
:
Lutz, 1990
: 61;
Bolton, 1995b
: 30;
Bolton, 2003
: 262.
†
Formicium
as collective group name (parataxon) for species described from wings only:
Katzke
et al.
, 2018
: 4.
Junior synonyms
†
Eoponera
Carpenter, 1929
†
Megapterites
Cockerell, 1920
Citations
Abe, M.
;
Smith, D. R.
1991.
The genus-group names of Symphyta (Hymenoptera) and their type species.
Esakia 31:1-115.
PDF
Archibald, S. B.
;
Johnson, K. R.
;
Mathewes, R. W.
;
Greenwood, D. R.
2011.
Intercontinental dispersal of giant thermophilic ants across the Arctic during early Eocene hyperthermals.
Proceedings of the Royal Society. Series B, Biological Sciences 278:3679-3686.
PDF
Bolton, B.
1994.
Identification guide to the ant genera of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B.
2003.
Synopsis and classification of Formicidae.
Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370.
PDF
Cockerell, T. D. A.
1920.
Fossil arthropods in the British Museum. - I.
Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)5:273-279.
Dalla Torre, K. W.
1893.
Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna).
Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp.
PDF
Handlirsch, A.
1906.
Die fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der rezenten Formen. Ein Handbuch für Paläontologen und Zoologen. Lieferung 4.
Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pp. 481-640.
Hölldobler, B.
;
Wilson, E. O.
1990.
The ants.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
Katzke, J.
;
Barden, P.
;
Dehon, M.
;
Michez, D.
;
Wappler, T.
2018.
Giant ants and their shape: revealing relationships in the genus
Titanomyrma
with geometric morphometrics.
PeerJ 6:36 pp. e4242.
10.7717/peerj.4242
PDF
Lutz, H.
1986.
Eine neue Unterfamilie der Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) aus dem mittel-eozänen Olschiefer der "Grube Messel" bei Darmstadt (Deutschland, S-Hessen).
Senckenbergiana Lethaea 67:177-218.
PDF
Lutz, H.
1990.
Systematische und palökologische Untersuchungen an Insekten aus dem Mittel-Eozän der Grube Messel bei Darmstadt.
Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 124:1-165.
Westwood, J. O.
1854.
Contributions to fossil entomology.
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 10:378-396.
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synonym
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