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Myrmica parasitica
| Myrmica parasitica | |
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| Scientific classification (junior synonym of Manica bradleyi) | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Myrmicini |
| Genus: | Manica |
| Species: | Myrmica parasitica Creighton, 1934
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This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Manica bradleyi.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- parasitica. Myrmica (Manica) parasitica Creighton, 1934: 185 (w.) U.S.A. (California).
- Type-material: 13 syntype workers.
- Type-locality: U.S.A.: California, Yosemite Nat. Park, Tenaya Lake on Tioga Pass road, Polly Dome (ca 8600 ft) (W.S. Creighton).
- Type-depositories: LACM, MCZC.
- Combination in Manica: Weber, 1947: 440.
- Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 109; Smith, M.R. 1951a: 791; Kutter, 1968b: 203; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1970a: 159; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1352; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1986g: 25 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 249; Ward, 2005: 33.
- Junior synonym of bradleyi: Prebus et al., 2023: 6.
- Distribution: U.S.A.
References
- Buschinger, A. 2009. Social parasitism among ants: a review (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 12: 219-235.
- Cook, T. W. 1953. The ants of California. Palo Alto, California: Pacific Books, 462 pp.
- Creighton, W. S. 1934. Descriptions of three new North American ants with certain ecological observations on previously described forms. Psyche (Camb.) 41: 185-200. (page 185, worker described)
- Mallis, A. 1941. A list of the ants of California with notes on their habits and distribution. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 40:61-100.
- Prebus, M., Georgiev, B.B., van de Kamp, T., Hamann, E., Baker, I., Rabeling, C. 2023. The rediscovery of the putative ant social parasite Manica parasitica syn. nov. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) reveals an unexpected endoparasite syndrome. Biology Letters, 19, 20230399 (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2023.0399).
- Ward, P.S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California. Zootaxa 936: 1-68 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.936.1.1).
- Weber, N. A. 1947b. A revision of the North American ants of the genus Myrmica Latreille with a synopsis of the Palearctic species. I. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 40: 437-474. (page 440, Combination in Manica)
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1968b. The rediscovery of Manica parasitica (Hymenoptera:Formicidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 44:71-72.
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1970a. The natural history of Manica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 43:129-162.
- Zharkov, D., Dubovikoff, D., Abakumov, E. 2022. The first fossil record of the genus Manica Jurine, 1807 from Late Eocene Baltic amber and discussion of the early evolution of Myrmicini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Insects, 14, 21 (doi:10.3390/insects14010021).