Formica meridionalis NASSONOV, 1889

Seifert, Bernhard, 2021, A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic members of the Formica rufa group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) - the famous mound-building red wood ants, Myrmecological News 31, pp. 133-179 : 152

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.25849/myrmecol.news_031:133
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5587859
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F52B87F6-5E25-6152-FC9F-D94EFA0C1D19
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scientific name	Formica meridionalis NASSONOV, 1889
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Formica rufa var. meridionalis NASSONOV, 1889 [identification by DLUSSKY (1967)]

This taxon was described from Kharkiv / E Ukraine and was synonymized by DLUSSKY (1967), who investigated types in the collection of ZMLU Moskva and stated these to be in all characters consistent with F. rufa . This is credible considering G.M. Dlussky’s good knowledge of wood ants and the species spectrum present near Kharkiv.