Formica dryas gymnomma

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Formica dryas gymnomma Wheeler, 1905 junior synonym of current valid taxon Formica obscuriventris Mayr, 1870

Formica dryas var. gymnomma Wheeler, 1905d: 269 (w.) U.S.A. (New York, Illinois). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: U.S.A.: New York, Long I., Cold Spring Harbor (W.M. Wheeler) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1913i: 448; no lectotype designated), U.S.A.: Illinois, Rockford (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depository: MCZC.

As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1910a: 570; Wheeler, 1913i: 392 (in key), 448; Emery, 1925d: 254.
Subspecies of Formica dryas: Wheeler, 1906g: 17.
Subspecies of Formica rufa: Creighton, 1940a: 3, 8 (in key); Smith, 1951c: 868.
Junior synonym of Formica obscuriventris: Creighton, 1950a: 493; Smith, 1958c: 158; Smith, 1979: 1460; Bolton, 1995b: 196.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Creighton, W. S. 1940a. A revision of the North American variants of the ant Formica rufa. American Museum Novitates 1055:1-10. PDF
Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1905d. New species of Formica. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21:267-274. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1906g. Fauna of New England. 7. List of the Formicidae. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History 7:1-24. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1913i. A revision of the ants of the genus Formica (Linné) Mayr. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 53:379-565. PDF

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