Formica polyctena FOERSTER, 1850 Formica polyctena FOERSTER, 1850 A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic members of the Formica rufa group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) - the famous mound-building red wood ants Seifert, Bernhard Myrmecological News 2021 2021-04-28 31 133 179 6JGKK FOERSTER, 1850 FOERSTER 1850 [816,1354,414,442] Insecta Formicidae Formica Animalia Hymenoptera 22 155 Arthropoda species polyctena     Formica polyctena FOERSTER, 1850[description, zoogeography]  This ant was described from Stolberg near Aachen / Germanywhere it formed a polydomous colony. FOERSTER (1850)’s description of setae condition and surface structures in the worker and gyne allows a clear differentiation from any  Formica rufagroup species present in this region.