FG 127 Formica
Featured Genus number 127 is Formica!Subfamily: FormicinaeDistribution: North America, Europe, and Asia. Overall temperate regions in Northern Hemisphere. The last time this was a featured genus was...
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Thanks for posting these - very nice! But ... I think your "F. obscuripes" is F. exsectoides.
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Formica gynocrates. Brilliant - that instantly becomes one of my favourite ant names!I remember finding Formica aerata and manni in Nevada sagebrush country (if my IDs are correct).
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Sounds right, Cantiacus. And BTW, description of F. gynocrates: http://antbase.org/ants/publications/2732/2732.pdf There are some other cold-desert Formica in Asia. F. candida is apparently common in...
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Thanks for the pdf. I found a small sanguinea-gp species at Tuolumne Meadows, CA raiding F. lasioides (I think). It didn't key out at all well with Creighton but I'll try this key - I wonder if it...
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More likely F. puberula. If you have specimens, check for dense, subdecumbent, coarse pubescence on scapes.
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Vision plays a very important role in above-ground Formica navigation. In experiments where the chitinous eyes of Lasius were covered with acrylic paint, they made their way back to the nest from...
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What is the current thinking about the status of the subgenera (Coptoformica, Raptiformica, Neoformica, etc)? Are they (or some of them) valid? Are they useful?
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It's complicated. In America, we don't recognize them. Some, like Iberoformica, Neoformica, Raptiformica & Coptoformica appear certainly monophyletic, but "Serviformica" as currently construed,...
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Most are abandoning the subgenera and are now speaking about groups...
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My imgur Formica album: http://imgur.com/a/cN34Q Now titled, and with a stray Crematogaster image thrown in.
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This video discusses the hunting methods of European Formica rufa (or polyctena?), and has some narration by Bert Hoelldobler: http://www.youtube.com/wa...xcGQ&feature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q46HcXiwMYcMy colony of Formica pergandei. I was surprised to find they have a nanitic caste which I'm not sure what their purpose is. Whenever people talk about these...
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MrILoveTheAnts wrote:My colony of Formica pergandei. I was surprised to find they have a callow caste which I'm not sure what their purpose is. Whenever people talk about these ants they seem to call...
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Pheidole pilifera wrote:MrILoveTheAnts wrote:My colony of Formica pergandei. I was surprised to find they have a callow caste which I'm not sure what their purpose is. Whenever people talk about these...
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That's probably because you are a callow youth, MrILTA. By the way, "nantic" is correctly spelled nanitic, and rhymes with parasitic. Young colonies of slave makers have nanitics because they often...
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Doctorant wrote:That's probably because you are a callow youth, MrILTA. ...I should demote MrILTA back to callow level.
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Doctorant wrote:That's probably because you are a callow youth, MrILTA. By the way, "nantic" is correctly spelled nanitic, and rhymes with parasitic. Young colonies of slave makers have nanitics...
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Members of this genus can be food for birds, especially ant-loving woodpeckers:http://bluejaybarrens.blogspot.com/2012/02/ant-mound-flicker-droppings.html And one day later (2 Feb. 2012), the same...
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Late breaking news concernign the interesting Iberian species formerly known as Formica subrufa A new taxonomic status for Iberoformica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) based on theuse of molecular markersJ...
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