Formica rufa angusticeps

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Formica rufa angusticeps Stärcke, 1947 junior synonym of current valid taxon Formica pratensis Retzius, 1783

Formica rufa var. angusticeps Stärcke, 1947: 146 (w.) NETHERLANDS. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Netherlands: Hooge Veluwe (E.T.G. Elton). Primary type depository: NNML (perhaps also NCBA).

Subspecies of Formica rufa: Bolton, 1995b: 191.
Junior synonym of Formica pratensis: Seifert, 2021: 160.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Seifert, B. 2021. A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic members of the Formica rufa group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) – the famous mound-building red wood ants. Myrmecological News 31:133-179. 10.25849/myrmecol.news_031:133 PDF
Stärcke, A. 1947. Die boreale vorm van de roode boschmier (Formica rufa rufa Nyl.) op de Hooge Veluwe. Entomologische Berichten (Amsterdam) 12:144-146. PDF

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