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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
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Formicidae
›
Formicinae
›
Formicini
›
Formica
›
Formica clara
Formica
clara
Forel, 1886
valid
Formica rufibarbis var. clara
Forel, 1886h
: 206 (w.) SYRIA. Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Syria: Damas(cus) (
Lortet
). Primary type depository:
MHNG
.
Type notes:
Seifert & Schultz, 2009b
: 263, cite 9 worker syntypes.
Ruzsky, 1902b
: 471 (q.m.)
Combination in
Formica (Serviformica)
:
Ruzsky, 1915b
: 14;
Emery, 1925d
: 250.
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name:
Forel, 1894c
: 404;
Emery, 1909b
: 198.
Subspecies of
Formica rufibarbis
:
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 210;
Forel, 1901m
: 65;
Ruzsky, 1902b
: 471;
Ruzsky, 1903c
: 206;
Bingham, 1903
: 335;
Forel, 1904c
: 384;
Ruzsky, 1905b
: 399;
Wheeler, 1913i
: 516 (redescription);
Ruzsky, 1915b
: 14;
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1923b
: 246;
Emery, 1925d
: 250;
Ruzsky, 1925b
: 44;
Karavaiev, 1926e
: 198;
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1926c
: 98;
Karavaiev, 1927c
: 111;
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929b
: 39;
Stitz, 1934
: 9;
Santschi, 1934d
: 281;
Stärcke, 1935a
: 268;
Ruzsky, 1936
: 92;
Ruzsky, 1946
: 69;
Chapman & Capco, 1951
: 198.
Status as species:
Collingwood, 1961a
: 68;
Dlussky, 1965a
: 37 (in key);
Dlussky, 1967a
: 77;
Pisarski, 1967a
: 416;
Pisarski, 1969b
: 312;
Dlussky & Pisarski, 1970
: 88;
Dlussky, 1981b
: 17;
Dlussky
et al.
, 1990
: 139;
Bolton, 1995b
: 193;
Schultz
et al.
, 2006
: 205;
Pfeiffer
et al.
, 2007
: 4;
Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008
: 133;
Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009
: 481;
Seifert & Schultz, 2009b
: 263 (redescription);
Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010
: 40;
Lapeva-Gjonova
et al.
, 2010
: 48;
Boer, 2010
: 32;
Csősz
et al.
, 2011
: 59;
Legakis, 2011
: 35;
Borowiec & Salata, 2012
: 492;
Czechowski
et al.
, 2012
: 220;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012
: 31;
Kiran & Karaman, 2012
: 10;
Borowiec, 2014
: 73;
Bharti
et al.
, 2016
: 27;
Lebas
et al.
, 2016
: 198;
Steiner
et al.
, 2017
: 8;
Salata & Borowiec, 2018c
: 45;
Seifert, 2018
: 308;
Werner
et al.
, 2018
: 6;
Bračko, 2019
: 170;
Khalili-Moghadam
et al.
, 2019
: 169;
Rasheed
et al.
, 2019
: 429;
Borowiec & Salata, 2022
: 169 (redescription).
Senior synonym of
Formica rufibarbis caucasica
:
Seifert & Schultz, 2009b
: 263.
Senior synonym of
Formica lusatica
:
Seifert & Schultz, 2009b
: 263;
Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009
: 481;
Legakis, 2011
: 35;
Czechowski
et al.
, 2012
: 220;
Seifert, 2018
: 308;
Werner
et al.
, 2018
: 6.
Senior synonym of
Formica rizadaghi
:
Dlussky
et al.
, 1990
: 139;
Bolton, 1995b
: 193.
Material of the unavailable names
Formica rufibarbis montana clara
,
Formica rufibarbis montivaga transversa
referred here by
Dlussky, 1967a
: 77;
Bolton, 1995b
: 193.
Junior synonyms
Formica lusatica
Seifert, 1997
Formica rizadaghi
Arnol'di, 1968
Formica rufibarbis caucasica
Wheeler, 1913
Obsolete combinations
Formica rufibarbis clara
Current subspecies (nominal plus)
F. c. sinae
Emery, 1925
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knighti
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liogaster
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manchu
manni
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maura
mesasiatica
microgyna
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miniocca
moki
montana
morsei
mucescens
mutinensis
neoclara
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oreas
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persica
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pratensis
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pulla
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robusta
rubicunda
rufa
rufibarbis
rufolucida
sanguinea
scitula
selysi
sentschuensis
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sibylla
sinensis
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subpilosa
subpolita
subsericea
suecica
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talbotae
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tianshanica
transmontanis
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truncorum
ulkei
†ungeri
uralensis
ussuriensis
villiscapa
vinculans
wheeleri
xerophila
yoshiokae
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