Formica laeviceps

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Formica laeviceps Creighton, 1940 valid

Formica rufa subsp. laeviceps Creighton, 1940a: 7 (in key), 9, fig. 1 (w.q.) U.S.A. (Utah). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Utah, La Sal Mts, nr Warner Ranger Station, 4.viii.1933 (W.S. Creighton). Primary type depository: AMNH. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paratype workers, paratype queens (numbers not stated). Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: AMNH, LACM, USNM.

Subspecies of Formica rufa: Cole, 1942: 380; Smith, 1951c: 869.
Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 491; Smith, 1958c: 156; Smith, 1967a: 371; Yensen et al., 1977: 185; Smith, 1979: 1459; Allred, 1982: 467; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 82; MacKay et al., 1988: 111 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 197; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 347.

Obsolete combinations

Formica rufa laeviceps

Citations

Allred, D. M. 1982. Ants of Utah. Great Basin Naturalist 42:415-511.
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Cole, A. C., Jr. 1942. The ants of Utah. American Midland Naturalist 28:358-388. PDF
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
MacKay, W. P.; Lowrie, D.; Fisher, A.; MacKay, E. E.; Barnes, F. 1988. The ants of Los Alamos County, New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pp. 79-131 in: Trager, J. C. (ed.) 1988. Advances in myrmecology. Leiden: E. J. Brill, xxvii + 551 pp. PDF
Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2002. The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp. 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
Smith, M. R. 1967a. Family Formicidae. Pp. 343-374 in: Krombein, K. V.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1967. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalog. Second supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 2):1-584. PDF
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1986g. The ants of Nevada. Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, vii + 138 pp. PDF
Yensen, N. P.; Clark, W. H.; Francoeur, A. 1977. A checklist of Idaho ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 53:181-187. PDF

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