Formica rufotruncicola WASMANN, 1891

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
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5587859
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scientific name	Formica rufotruncicola WASMANN, 1891
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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 .