Veromessor chicoensis
Smith, 1956
valid
Veromessor stoddardi subsp. chicoensis
Smith, 1956a:
37 (w.)
U.S.A. (California).
Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: California, Butte County, Chico, 2.iii.1954, 450 ft, Sec.17, T22N, R2E (A. Wenner). Primary type depository: USNM. Primary type specimen: USNMENT00529087.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 20 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: LACM, USNM.
- Johnson et al., 2022: 33 (q.m.)
- Combination in Messor: Bolton, 1995b: 253.
- Combination in Veromessor: Ward et al., 2015: 73.
- Subspecies of Veromessor stoddardi: Smith, 1958c: 120; Smith, 1979: 1365; Bolton, 1995b: 253.
- Status as species: Johnson, 2000a: 96 (in list); Ward, 2005: 66; Johnson et al., 2022: 33 (diagnosis).
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Johnson, R. A. 2000a. Seed-harvester ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of North America: an overview of ecology and biogeography. Sociobiology 36:89-122 + 83-88. PDF
- Johnson, R. A.; Borowiec, M. L.; Snelling, R. R.; Cole, A. C. 2022. A taxonomic revision and a review of the biology of the North American seed-harvester ant genus Veromessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Zootaxa 5206 (1):1-115. 10.11646/zootaxa.5206.1.1 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. 1956a. A key to the workers of Veromessor Forel of the United States and the description of a new subspecies (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 32:36-38. 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
- Ward, P. S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 936:1-68. PDF
- Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R. 2015. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 40:61-81. 10.1111/syen.12090 PDF
†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
- All genera
- Incertae sedis
- Agroecomyrmecinae
- Amblyoponinae
- Aneuretinae
- Apomyrminae
- †Armaniinae
- †Brownimeciinae
- Dolichoderinae
- Dorylinae
- Ectatomminae
- †Formiciinae
- Formicinae
- †Haidomyrmecinae
- Leptanillinae
- Martialinae
- Myrmeciinae
- Myrmicinae
- Paraponerinae
- Ponerinae
- Proceratiinae
- Pseudomyrmecinae
- †Sphecomyrminae
- †Zigrasimeciinae