Protonym: Formica microgyna var. rasilis
Authorship Wheeler, 1903g: 648
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Nearctic
Locality U.S.A. (Colorado)
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated, “13 colonies”). Primary type localities: U.S.A.: Colorado, Manitou, 11.vii.-21.viii.(1903?) (W.M. Wheeler) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1913i: 469; no lectotype designated), U.S.A.: Colorado, between Broadmoor and Cheyenne Cañon (W.M. Wheeler), Colorado, Pike’s Peak (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depositories: AMNH, LACM, MCZC.
Type notes In the original description Wheeler, 1903g cites 3 localities “in the neighborhood of Manitou”: Red Rock Cañon, Williams Cañon, and Ute Pass.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica microgyna rasilis Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Formica rasilis Wheeler, 1903
Original combination
Formica rasilis Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Formica densiventris Viereck, 1903