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 31 133 179 http://zoobank.org/0e55c0d7-531a-48d7-a078-148b96bd461d journal article 3972 10.25849/myrmecol.news_031:133 b9f36fb1-1c9d-4af8-96ca-d57973b94862 1997-3500 5582216 0E55C0D7-531A-48D7-A078-148B96BD461D 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 .