Adformica
Adformica | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Formicini |
Genus: | Adformica Lomnicki, 1925 |
Type species | |
Formica exsecta
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Formica.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- ADFORMICA [junior synonym of Formica]
- Adformica Lomnicki, 1925a: 164 [as subgenus of Formica]. Type-species: Formica exsecta, by subsequent designation of Donisthorpe, 1927b: 316.
- Adformica junior synonym of Coptoformica: Stitz, 1939: 306 (as Adformica and Coptoformica share the same type-species synonymy is absolute).
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 128, Adformica as junior synonym of Coptoformica (as Adformica and Coptoformica share the same type-species synonymy is absolute))
- Donisthorpe, H. 1927c. British ants, their life history and classification (2nd edn.). London: G. Routledge and Sons, xvi + 436 pp. (page 316, Type-species: Formica exsecta; by subsequent designation)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 617-688 (page 620, Adformica as junior synonym of Coptoformica)
- Lomnicki, J. 1925a [1924]. Przeglad polskich gatunków rodzaju mrówki (Formica Linné). Pol. Pismo Entomol. 3: 151-182 (page 164, Adformica as subgenus of Formica)
- Stitz, H. 1939. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meersteile nach ihren Merkmalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise. 37. Theil. Hautflüger oder Hymenoptera. I: Ameisen oder Formicidae. Jena: G. Fischer, 428 pp. (page 306, Adformica as junior synonym of Coptoformica)