Species: Formica obscuripes

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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Formica rufa r. obscuripes Forel, 1886b PDF: xxxix (w.) U.S.A. (Wyoming). Nearctic. Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Wyoming, Green River (S.H. Scudder). Primary type depositories: MCZC, USNM. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

[Misspelled as obscurpes by Forel, 1914c PDF: 619.]

Emery, 1893k PDF: 650 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953c PDF: 165 (l.); Hung, 1969 PDF: 456 (k.)

As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1893k PDF: 650.

Subspecies of Formica rufa: Mayr, 1886d PDF: 426; Cresson, 1887 PDF: 256; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 202, 206 (footnote); Forel, 1899b PDF: 128; Forel, 1904b PDF: 152; Forel, 1904e PDF: 175; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 570; Santschi, 1911d PDF: 7; Wheeler, 1913i PDF: 433 (redescription); Emery, 1925d PDF: 254; Essig, 1926 PDF: 867; Smith, 1928c PDF: 279; Menozzi, 1932b PDF: 312; Cole, 1936a PDF: 37; Cole, 1937b PDF: 137; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944 PDF: 263; Buren, 1944a PDF: 301; Smith, 1951c PDF: 869.

Status as species: Santschi, 1911d PDF: 7; Wheeler, 1913i PDF: 433 (redescription); Wheeler, 1917a PDF: 535; Weber, 1935 PDF: 165; Creighton, 1940a PDF: 1, 7 (in key); Cole, 1942 PDF: 380; Creighton, 1950a PDF: 492; Cole, 1954c PDF: 165; Smith, 1958c PDF: 157; Cole, 1966b PDF: 23 (in key); Beck et al., 1967: 70; Smith, 1967a PDF: 372; Francoeur, 1977b PDF: 208; Yensen et al., 1977 PDF: 185; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1978b PDF: 394; Smith, 1979: 1460; Allred, 1982: 471; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g PDF: 83; DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 147; MacKay et al., 1988 PDF: 115; Blacker, 1992 PDF: 11; Wheeler et al., 1994 PDF: 306; Bolton, 1995b: 200; Mackay & Mackay, 2002 PDF: 357; Coovert, 2005 PDF: 150; Ward, 2005 PDF: 63.

Senior synonym of Formica rufa aggerans: Forel, 1914c PDF: 619; Emery, 1925d PDF: 254; Creighton, 1940a PDF: 1; Buren, 1944a PDF: 301; Creighton, 1950a PDF: 492; Smith, 1979: 1460; Bolton, 1995b: 200; Coovert, 2005 PDF: 150.

Senior synonym of Formica rufa melanotica: Creighton, 1950a PDF: 492; Smith, 1958c PDF: 157; Smith, 1979: 1460; Bolton, 1995b: 200; Coovert, 2005 PDF: 150.

Material of the unavailable name Formica rufa obscuriventris rubiginosa Emery, 1893 referred here by Creighton, 1940a PDF: 1; Creighton, 1950a PDF: 492; Smith, 1951c PDF: 869; Smith, 1979: 1460; Bolton, 1995b: 200.

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Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Americas: Canada, United States
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Nearctic

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Treatment Citation: Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68

Formica obscuripes ForelHNS 1886b

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 12 times found in shrub steppe, 10 times found in conifer forest, 21 times found in sagebrush, 10 times found in alpine meadow edge, 6 times found in aspen forest, 10 times found in Oak fir, 5 times found in aspen grove, 6 times found in meadow, 8 times found in Shortgrass prairie, 8 times found in Pinyon-Cedar woodland, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 59 times thatch mound, 14 times thatch mound nest, 26 times thatched nest, 22 times Under rock, 21 times On Ground, 11 times mound nest, 18 times Under boulder, 10 times under stone, 14 times forager, 7 times Formica obscuripes mound, 8 times foragers, ...

Collected most commonly using these methods: 251 times search, 22 times hand collecting, 3 times direct collection, 1 times pitfall, 1 times hand collected, 1 times observation, 0 times sweeping, 1 times Winkler.

Elevations: collected from 5 - 3115 meters, 1937 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1877-12-31 00:00:00.0 and 2022-07-17 00:00:00.0

Type specimens: syntype of Formica obscuripes: casent0911081; Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Formica rufa obscuriventris melanotica: casent0905698

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Species: Formica obscuripes Forel, 1886

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