Formica atra - AntCat

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

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Formica atra Schilling, 1839 incertae sedis in genus, unresolved junior homonym, unidentifiable

Formica atra Schilling, 1839: 54 (w.) POLAND. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Poland: Silesia (P.S. Schilling). Primary type depository: unknown. Type notes: Horn & Kahle, 1936: 243, report that Schilling’s specimens were “all scattered (1845)”.

[Unresolved junior primary homonym of Camponotus atra Zetterstedt, 1838 (Bolton, 1995b: 191).]
Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 193.
Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 191.

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
Horn, W.; Kahle, I. 1936. Sammlungen, welche ihren Eigentümer gewechselt haben [Part 2: continued from Horne & Kahle 1935]. Entomologische Beihefte aus Berlin-Dahlem 3:161-296.
Schilling, P. S. 1839. Bemerkungen über die in Schlesien und der Grafschaft Glatz vorgefundenen Arten der Ameisen. Uebersicht der Arbeiten und Veränderungen der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für Vaterländische Kultur 1838:51-56. PDF

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