Formica barbara Linnaeus, 1767: 962 (w.) NORTH AFRICA. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: North Africa: (“Habitat in Barbaria. E. Brander.”) (no further data). Primary type depository: ZMLS. Type notes: 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Barbaria = North African coast from Morocco to Libya. 3) There is one Linnaean specimen in LSLC (Day & Fitton, 1978: 196), type-status unknown.