Formica cinerea armenica
Ruzsky, 1905
junior synonym of current valid taxon Formica cinerea Mayr, 1853
Formica cinerea var. armenica
Ruzsky, 1905b:
406 (w.q.)
TURKEY.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Dlussky, 1967a: 66). Primary type locality: lectotype Turkey: Ararat, ix.1900 (Satunin). Primary type depository: ZMUM.
Type notes:
Original syntype localities: Armenia (“Zakavkaz”): Karaklis, 1900 (Satunin), Armenia?: Delizhansk gorge, Gokchi, 29.viii.1900 (Satunin), Turkey: Sardar-Bulak, between B. and M. Ararat (Satunin?), Mt Ararat, 10-11000 f., 11.ix.1900 (Satunin), Mangliza, vii.1900 (Satunin?).
- Lectotype designation: Dlussky, 1967a: 66.
- [Misspelled as armeniaca by Emery, 1909b: 199; Wheeler, 1913i: 398 (in key), and others.]
- Combination in Formica (Serviformica): Emery, 1925d: 246.
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1909b: 199; Wheeler, 1913i: 523.
- Subspecies of Formica cinerea: Wheeler, 1913i: 398 (in key); Bondroit, 1918: 54; Emery, 1925d: 246; Finzi, 1928a: 74; Dlussky, 1965a: 43 (in key); Dlussky, 1967a: 66; Aktaç, 1977: 127; Arakelian, 1994: 92; Bolton, 1995b: 191.
- Junior synonym of Formica cinerea: Seifert, 2002: 251; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 132; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 10; Radchenko, 2016: 300.
Citations
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- Bondroit, J. 1918. Les fourmis de France et de Belgique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 87:1-174. PDF
- Dlussky, G. M. 1965a. Ants of the genus Formica L. of Mongolia and northeast Tibet (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 23:15-43. PDF
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- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
- Finzi, B. 1928a. Formica cinerea Mayr e varietà paleartiche. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 60:65-75. PDF
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- Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.
- Ruzsky, M. 1905b. The ants of Russia. (Formicariae Imperii Rossici). Systematics, geography and data on the biology of Russian ants. Part I. [In Russian.]. Trudy Obshchestva Estestvoispytatelei pri Imperatorskom Kazanskom Universitete 38(4-6):1-800.
- Seifert, B. 2002. A taxonomic revision of the Formica cinerea group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Görlitz 74(2):245-272. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1913i. A revision of the ants of the genus Formica (Linné) Mayr. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 53:379-565. PDF