Formica pallipes

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Formica pallipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Formicini
Genus: Formica
Species: F. pallipes
Binomial name
Formica pallipes
Latreille, 1787

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on type material

French Guiana (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.

  • pallipes. Formica pallipes Latreille, 1787: 309 (m.) FRENCH GUIANA. [Misspelled as pallidipes by Dalla Torre, 1893: 40.] Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 200.

Description

References

  • Dlussky, G. M. 1967a. Ants of the genus Formica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, g. Formica). Moskva: Nauka Publishing House, 236 pp. (page 58, Junior synonym of fusca)
  • Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1926c. Contributions to the knowledge of the myrmecology of Turkestan. I. Rus. Entomol. Obozr. 20: 93-100 (page 97, worker described)
  • Tarbinsky, Y.S. 1976. The ants of Kirghizia. Frunze: Ilim, 217 pp. (page 180, Junior synonym of fusca)
  • Latreille, P. A. 1802b. Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des Crustacés et des insectes. Tome 3. Familles naturelles des genres. Paris: F. Dufart, xii + 467 pp. (page 309, male described)