Formica maxillosa

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

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on type material

India (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.

  • maxillosa. Formica maxillosa Fabricius, 1775: 396 (w.) INDIA. [Unresolved junior primary homonym of maxillosa De Geer, 1773: 601 (Bolton, 1995b: 198).] Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 198.

Description

References

  • Fabricius, J. C. 1775. Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg and Leipzig]: Korte, 832 pp. (page 396, worker described)