Taxonomic history
[First available use of Formica sanguinea rubicunda subintegra Emery, 1893; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.].Wheeler, 1913i PDF: 411 (m.); Hung, 1969 PDF: 456 (k.).Combination in Formica (Formica): Wheeler, 1913i PDF: 410.Combination in Formica (Raptiformica): Emery, 1925d PDF: 260.As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1901e PDF: 713; Wheeler, 1905j PDF: 399; Wheeler, 1906g PDF: 15.Subspecies of Formica sanguinea: Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 570; Wheeler, 1913i PDF: 410 (redescription); Wheeler, 1916r: 596; Emery, 1925d PDF: 260; Dennis, 1938 PDF: 297; Wing, 1939 PDF: 165; Talbot & Kennedy, 1940 PDF: 560; Wesson & Wesson, 1940 PDF: 101; Buren, 1944a PDF: 308; Smith, 1951c PDF: 872.Status as species: Creighton, 1950a PDF: 470; Wilson & Brown, 1955 PDF: 120; Smith, 1958c PDF: 159; Carter, 1962a PDF: 8 (in list); Smith, 1967a PDF: 373; Buren, 1968a PDF: 29 (redescription); Kutter, 1968c: 207; Francoeur, 1977b PDF: 208; Smith, 1979: 1465; Allred, 1982: 476; Snelling & Buren, 1985 PDF: 72 (in key); DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 148; Wheeler et al., 1994 PDF: 307; Bolton, 1995b: 204; Coovert, 2005 PDF: 159; MacGown & Forster, 2005 PDF: 66; Ellison et al., 2012: 174.Material of the unavailable name Formica sanguinea subintegra gilvescens referred here by Creighton, 1950a PDF: 470; Smith, 1958c PDF: 160; Buren, 1968a PDF: 29; Smith, 1979: 1465; Coovert, 2005 PDF: 159.
Formica subintegra is a species of slave-making ant in the genus Formica.[1] Formica subintegra seems to be obligate parasites, enslaving ants of the fusca group of Formica. The ants are not active outside the nest except during slave-raids; foraging is conducted entirely by their slaves, which make up 70-90% of the colony.[2]
Formica subintegra is a species of slave-making ant in the genus Formica. Formica subintegra seems to be obligate parasites, enslaving ants of the fusca group of Formica. The ants are not active outside the nest except during slave-raids; foraging is conducted entirely by their slaves, which make up 70-90% of the colony.
