Formica rufotruncicola WASMANN, 1891

Formica rufa var. rufotruncicola WASMANN, 1891 [description of types by BETREM (1960)]

This taxon was described from Panheel near Roermond / Netherlands on the basis of workers collected from a nest in April 1889. WASMANN (1891a) gave no description of structural characters. However, as WASMANN (1891b) reported on the mixed colouration of the worker population of exactly this nest, F. rufotruncicola WASMANN, 1891 is no nomen nudum. The data reported by BETREM (1960) on seven investigated syntype workers from NHM Maastricht indicate that it is a red colour variant of F. rufa .