Formica pratensis rufoides

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

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Formica pratensis rufoides Stärcke, 1926 valid

Formica pratensis subsp. rufoides Stärcke, 1926a: 150 (in key) (w.) SWITZERLAND. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Switzerland: (no further data) (no collector’s name; perhaps A. Forel). Primary type depository: MHNG.

[First available use of Formica rufa pratensis rufoides Forel, 1874; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name (Bolton, 1995b: 203).]
[Note: Seifert, 2021: 176, incorrectly has this as an unavailable name.]
Subspecies of Formica pratensis: Holgersen, 1944a: 186.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Holgersen, H. 1944a. The ants of Norway (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Nytt Magasin for Naturvidenskapene 84:165-203. PDF
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
Stärcke, A. 1926a. Determineertabel voor werkmieren uit Nederland en omliggend gebied, met inbegrip der in kassen zich voortplantende exoten. Levende Natuur 31:79-95, 117-125, 146-151. PDF

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