Protonym: Formica pratensis
Authorship Retzius, 1783: 75
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality GERMANY
Primary type information Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Seifert, 2021: 160). Primary type locality: neotype Germany: GER: 51.4048°N, 14.8746°E, Daubitz-3.3 km. ENE, 162 m., 30.vi.1999-050 (R. Schultz). Primary type depository: SMNG (neotype).
Type notes 1) Original type data: holotype (?) worker (no further data), type material lost. 2) Retzius does not appear in Horn & Kahle, 1936.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica pratensis Species Valid Original combination
Formica rufa pratensis Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Formica pratensis Retzius, 1783