Formica gaullei BONDROIT, 1917

Formica gaullei BONDROIT, 1917 [type investigation]

This taxon was described using workers collected at Mesnil-le-Roi near St. Germain-en-Laye (48.925° N, 2.112° E, 65 m). Investigated were three worker syntypes collected in 1889 by de Gaulle at Mesnil-le-Roi and stored in MSNB Bruxelles . This sample showed the following posterior probabilities if run as wild-cards in an LDA: Formica polyctena 0.9976, F. polyctena × rufa 0.0024, Formica rufa 0.0002.