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Formica
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Taxonomy
Formica was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Formicini, Formicinae, Formicariae.
It was assigned to Insecta by Geoffroy (1762); to Aculeata by Scopoli (1763); to Gymnoptera by Schaeffer (1766); to Synistata by Fabricius (1775); to Hymenoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Müller (1764), Linnaeus (1767), Müller (1776) and Latreille (1796); to Piezata by Fabricius (1798); to Formicariae by Latreille (1802); to Formicidae by Scudder (1877), Pongrácz (1931) and Carpenter (1992); to Formicinae by Zhang (1989) and Dlussky et al. (2015); and to Formicini by Wheeler (1915), Bolton (2003), Bolton (2012) and Ward et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Insecta by Geoffroy (1762); to Aculeata by Scopoli (1763); to Gymnoptera by Schaeffer (1766); to Synistata by Fabricius (1775); to Hymenoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Müller (1764), Linnaeus (1767), Müller (1776) and Latreille (1796); to Piezata by Fabricius (1798); to Formicariae by Latreille (1802); to Formicidae by Scudder (1877), Pongrácz (1931) and Carpenter (1992); to Formicinae by Zhang (1989) and Dlussky et al. (2015); and to Formicini by Wheeler (1915), Bolton (2003), Bolton (2012) and Ward et al. (2016).
Species
F. alsatica, F. annosa, F. arcana, F. auxillacensis, F. bauckhorni, F. biamoensis, F. buphthalma, F. cantalica, F. ceps, F. cockerelli, F. demersa, F. eoptera, F. flavifemoralis, F. flori (syn. F. (Serviformica) parvula, F. egecomerta, F. (Serviformica) antiqua, F. (Serviformica) baltica), F. fusca, F. gibbosa, F. globiventris, F. grandis, F. gravida, F. gustawi, F. heteroptera, F. horrida, F. immersa, F. kutscheri, F. latinodosa, F. lavateri, F. linquensis, F. longicollis, F. lucida, F. luteola, F. macrocephala, F. macrognatha, F. macrophthalma, F. maculipennis, F. martynovi, F. neorufibarbis, F. nigra, F. obscura, F. orbata, F. ovala, F. palaeopolonica, F. paleosibirica, F. parexsecta, F. parvula, F. phaethusa (syn. F. clymene), F. pitoni, F. primitiva, F. primordialis, F. procera, F. pulchella, F. quadrata, F. radchenkoi, F. robusta, F. sepulta, F. serresi, F. seuberti, F. strangulata, F. surinamensis, F. trigona, F. tripartita, F. ungeri (syn. F. oblita, F. aemula, F. redtenbacheri, Ponera elongatula, F. acuminata, F. kollari), F. zherikhini
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1758 | Formica Linnaeus p. 579 |
| 1761 | Formica Linnaeus p. 426 |
| 1762 | Formica Geoffroy p. 410 |
| 1763 | Formica Scopoli p. 312 |
| 1764 | Formica Müller p. 75 |
| 1766 | Formica Schaeffer |
| 1767 | Formica Linnaeus p. 962 |
| 1775 | Formica Fabricius p. 391 |
| 1776 | Formica Müller p. 166 |
| 1796 | Formica Latreille p. 120 |
| 1798 | Formica Fabricius p. 279 |
| 1802 | Formica Latreille p. 353 |
| 1877 | Formica Scudder |
| 1913 | Formica (Serviformica) Forel |
| 1915 | Formica Wheeler |
| 1931 | Formica Pongrácz p. 115 |
| 1989 | Formica Zhang p. 286 |
| 1992 | Formica Carpenter |
| 2003 | Formica Bolton p. 28 |
| 2012 | Formica Bolton |
| 2015 | Formica Dlussky et al. p. 137 |
| 2016 | Formica Ward et al. p. 346 |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available