Formica ferruginea

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Formica ferruginea Christ, 1791 incertae sedis in genus, unidentifiable

Formica ferruginea Christ, 1791: 512, pl. 60, fig. 10 (w.) NO LOCALITY GIVEN.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: none given. Primary type depository: unknown (no material known to exist). Type notes: 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Christ, J.L. is not mentioned in Horn & Kahle, 1935, Horn & Kahle, 1937.

Junior synonym of Formica rufa: Emery, 1892c: 161; Dalla Torre, 1893: 207; Emery, 1925d: 253; Karavaiev, 1936: 240; Gösswald, 1941: 73; Bolton, 1995b: 194; Radchenko, 2016: 284.
Unidentifiable taxon; incertae sedis in Formica: Seifert, 2021: 176.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Christ, J. L. 1791. Naturgeschichte, Klassification und Nomenclatur der Insekten vom Bienen, Wespen und Ameisengeschlecht. Frankfurt: Hermann, 535 pp. PDF
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1892c ("1891"). Note sinonimiche sulle formiche. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 23:159-167. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Gösswald, K. 1941. Rassenstudien an der roten Waldameise Formica rufa L. auf systematischer, ökologischer, physiologischer und biologischer Grundlage. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Entomologie 28:62-124. PDF
Horn, W.; Kahle, I. 1935. Sammlungen, welche ihren Eigentümer gewechselt haben [Part 1]. Entomologische Beihefte aus Berlin-Dahlem 2:1-160.
Horn, W.; Kahle, I. 1937. Sammlungen, welche ihren Eigentümer gewechselt haben [Part 3: continued from Horne & Kahle 1936]. Entomologische Beihefte aus Berlin-Dahlem 4:297-388.
Karavaiev, V. 1936. The fauna of the family Formicidae (ants) of the Ukraine. Part II (conclusion). [In Ukrainian.]. Trudy Instytutu Zoolohii ta Biolohii Ukrains'koi Akademii Nauk. Seriya 1. Pratsi z Systematyky ta Faunistyky 1936:161-316.
Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.
Seifert, B. 2021. A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic members of the Formica rufa group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) – the famous mound-building red wood ants. Myrmecological News 31:133-179. 10.25849/myrmecol.news_031:133 PDF

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