A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic members of the Formica rufa group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) - the famous mound-building red wood ants
Author
Seifert, Bernhard
text
Myrmecological News
2021
2021-04-28
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133
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http://zoobank.org/0e55c0d7-531a-48d7-a078-148b96bd461d
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10.25849/myrmecol.news_031:133
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Formica truncicola
NYLANDER, 1846
Formica truncicola
NYLANDER, 1846
[
type
investigation]
Investigated were
four type
specimens from
ZM Helsinki
:
one worker
syntype
pinned together with an alate gyne, both with detached heads glued on a separate cardboard, labelled “Kuusamo \ W.
Nyland
. \ Coll.
Nyland
\
Mus
. Zool. H:fors Spec. typ. No 5026
Formica truncicola Nyl.
”; one alate gyne on another pin with same labels but “...Spec. typ. No 5024”;
one male
on a third pin with same labels but “...Spec. typ. No 5025”.
All
specimens fully match the established conception
Formica truncorum
.