Formica maligna

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

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Formica maligna Forskål, 1775 incertae sedis in genus, unidentifiable

Formica maligna Forskål, 1775: 84 (w.) NO LOCALITY GIVEN.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: none given (perhaps Arabia) (no further data) (P. Forskål). Primary type depository: unknown (no material known to exist). Type notes: 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 79, Forskål material should be in ZMUC.

Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 201.
Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 198.
[Note: Emery, 1892c: 160, suggests possible identity with Brachyponera sennaarensis.]

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
Emery, C. 1892c ("1891"). Note sinonimiche sulle formiche. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 23:159-167. PDF
Forskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post mortum auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Hauniae [= Copenhagen]: Moeller, xxxiv + 164 pp.
Horn, W.; Kahle, I. 1935. Sammlungen, welche ihren Eigentümer gewechselt haben [Part 1]. Entomologische Beihefte aus Berlin-Dahlem 2:1-160.

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