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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Myrmicinae
›
Crematogastrini
›
Myrmecina
›
Myrmecina americana
›
Myrmecina americana texana
Myrmecina
americana
texana
Wheeler, 1908
junior synonym of current valid taxon
Myrmecina americana
Emery, 1895
Myrmecina graminicola subsp. texana
Wheeler, 1908h
: 422 (w.) U.S.A. (Texas). Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “several”). Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Texas, Austin, Shoal Creek (
W.M. Wheeler
). Primary type depository:
MCZC
(perhaps also
AMNH
).
Subspecies of
Myrmecina graminicola
:
Wheeler, 1910a
: 562;
Wheeler, 1917a
: 501;
Emery, 1924f
: 232.
Subspecies of
Myrmecina americana
:
Smith, 1948
: 239 (in key);
Creighton, 1950a
: 250;
Smith, 1951c
: 816;
Snelling, 1965b
: 104 (in key).
Junior synonym of
Myrmecina americana
:
Brown, 1951
: 103;
Smith, 1958c
: 130;
Brown, 1967c
: 236;
Smith, 1979
: 1399;
Bolton, 1995b
: 274.
Obsolete combinations
Myrmecina graminicola texana
Citations
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr.
1951.
New synonymy of a few genera and species of ants.
Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 46:101-106.
PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr.
1967c.
Studies on North American ants. II.
Myrmecina
.
Entomological News 78:233-240.
PDF
Creighton, W. S.
1950a.
The ants of North America.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585.
PDF
Emery, C.
1924f ("1922").
Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.].
Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397.
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.
1948.
A new species of
Myrmecina
from California (Hymenoptera, Formicidae).
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 50:238-240.
PDF
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
Snelling, R. R.
1965b.
Studies on California ants. 2.
Myrmecina californica
M. R. Smith (Hymenoptera; Formicidae).
Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 64:101-105.
PDF
Wheeler, W. M.
1908h.
The ants of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. (Part I.).
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:399-485.
PDF
Wheeler, W. M.
1910a.
Ants: their structure, development and behavior.
New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp.
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
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