Formica obscurata SANTSCHI, 1925

Formica rufa var. obscurata SANTSCHI, 1925 [type investigation]

This taxon was described from Vernon / France (49.09°N, 1.49° E, 19 m). Investigated were two type workers from NHM Basel labelled “type”, “ F. rufa L. v. obscura Sant type SANTSCHI det. 1925”, “France Vernon (Eure) G. d. Kerville ”; the specimen with CW = 1768 μm is addition- ally labelled with “ANTWEB CASENT 0912252 ” . If run as wild-card in an LDA, the type sample is allocated with p = 0.8677 to Formica rufa, with p = 0.1321 to Formica polyctena × rufa, and with p = 0.0001 to F. polyctena .