Protonym: Formica stenoptera
Authorship Foerster, 1850a: 26
Forms w.q.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality GERMANY
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Germany: vic. Aachen (A. Foerster). Primary type depository: unknown (no material known to exist).
Type notes According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 78, Foerster’s formicid types are in MNHU, but Seifert & Schultz, 2009b: 271, state that “According to our own search in German collections type material of Förster is completely destroyed”.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica stenoptera Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Formica rufibarbis Fabricius, 1793
Original combination