Formica maligna

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Formica maligna
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Formicini
Genus: Formica
Species: F. maligna
Binomial name
Formica maligna
Forskål, 1775

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on type material

Egypt? (type locality).

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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • maligna. Formica maligna Forskål, 1775: 84 (w.) EGYPT? Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 198. See also: Emery, 1892b: 160.

Description

References

  • Emery, C. 1892c [1891]. Note sinonimiche sulle formiche. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 23: 159-167 (page 160, see also)
  • Forskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post mortum auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Hauniae [= Copenhagen]: Moeller, xxxiv + 164 pp. (page 84, worker described)