Formica marcida

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Formica marcida Wheeler, 1913 junior synonym of current valid taxon Formica subaenescens Emery, 1893

Formica fusca var. marcida Wheeler, 1913i: 398 (in key) (w.q.) CANADA (British Columbia). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Francoeur, 1973: 189). Primary type locality: lectotype Canada: British Columbia, Selkirk Mts, Prairie Hills (J.C. Bradley). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paralectotype workers (number not stated), 9 paralectotype queens. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC.

Lectotype designation: Francoeur, 1973: 189.
[Formica fusca fusca marcida Wheeler, 1913i; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1925d: 248.
Subspecies of Formica fusca: Wheeler, 1917a: 546; Wheeler, 1917e: 19; Smith, 1951c: 864.
Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 534; Cole, 1954c: 166; Smith, 1958c: 156; Smith, 1967a: 371.
Junior synonym of Formica fusca: Francoeur, 1973: 189; Smith, 1979: 1452; Bolton, 1995b: 198; Radchenko, 2016: 294.
Junior synonym of Formica subaenescens: Schär et al., 2018: 6.

Obsolete combinations

Formica fusca marcida

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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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
Francoeur, A. 1973. Révision taxonomique des espèces néarctiques du groupe fusca, genre Formica (Formicidae, Hymenoptera). Mémoires de la Société Entomologique du Québec 3:1-316. PDF
Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.
Schär, S.; Talavera, G.; Espadaler, X.; Rana, J. D.; Andersen, A. A.; Cover, S. P.; Vila, R. 2018. Do Holarctic ant species exist? Trans-Beringian dispersal and homoplasy in the Formicidae. Journal of Biogeography 00:1-12. 10.1111/jbi.13380 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, 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
Wheeler, W. M. 1917a. The mountain ants of western North America. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 52:457-569. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1917e. The ants of Alaska. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 61:13-23. PDF

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