Formica rupestris

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

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Formica rupestris Leach, 1825 incertae sedis in genus, unidentifiable

Formica rupestris Leach, 1825: 291 (w.q.m.) FRANCE. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype worker(s), syntype queen(s), syntype male(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: France: vic. Nice (W.E. Leach). Primary type depository: unknown. Type notes: Supposedly in BMNH (Horn & Kahle, 1935: 151), not present in BMNH (Donisthorpe, 1918a: 9).

Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 211.
Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 203.

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
Donisthorpe, H. 1918a. Some notes on a paper by Dr. Leach on ants and gnats in 1825. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 30:8-9. PDF
Horn, W.; Kahle, I. 1935. Sammlungen, welche ihren Eigentümer gewechselt haben [Part 1]. Entomologische Beihefte aus Berlin-Dahlem 2:1-160.
Leach, W. E. 1825. Descriptions of thirteen species of Formica and three species of Culex found in the environs of Nice. Zoological Journal. London 2:289-293. PDF

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