Formica dalailamae

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Formica dalailamae
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Formica sentschuensis)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Formicini
Genus: Formica
Species: Formica dalailamae
Ruzsky, 1915

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Formica sentschuensis.

Nomenclature

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

  • dalailamae. Formica (Neoformica) dalailamae Ruzsky, 1915a: 431, fig. 9 (w.) TIBET. Combination in F. (Serviformica): Emery, 1925b: 246. Junior synonym of sentschuensis: Dlussky, 1965a: 17.

References

  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 193, catalogue)
  • Dlussky, G. M. 1965a. Ants of the genus Formica L. of Mongolia and northeast Tibet (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Ann. Zool. (Warsaw) 23: 15-43 (page 17, junior synonym of sentschuensis)
  • Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 246, combination in F. (Serviformica))
  • Ruzsky, M. 1915a. On the ants of Tibet and the southern Gobi. On material collected on the expedition of Colonel P. K. Kozlov. Ezheg. Zool. Muz. 20: 418-444 (page 431, worker described)