Formica picea Leach, 1825: 292 (w.q.m.) FRANCE. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: neotype minor worker (by designation of Seifert, 2019b: 28 (in text)). Primary type locality: neotype France: (nr Nice), 43.799°N, 7.488°E. 90 m., Menton – 2.8 km. N, 10.viii.2011 (C. Galkowski). Primary type depository: SMNG. Type notes: Original syntype data: worker(s), queen(s), male(s) France: vic. Nice (W.E. Leach); depository unknown; supposedly in BMNH (Horn & Kahle, 1935: 151), not present in BMNH (Donisthorpe, 1918a: 9).

Infrasubspecies

• C. l. p. figaro Emery, 1924