Formica goesswaldi
Kutter, 1967
junior synonym of current valid taxon Formica foreli Bondroit, 1918
Formica (Coptoformica) goesswaldi
Kutter, 1967a:
234, figs. 15-22 (w.q.m.)
SWITZERLAND.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: 122 syntype workers, 4 syntype queens, 58 syntype males. Primary type locality: Switzerland: Grisons Canton, Soglio (Bergell), ca 1150 m. (H. Kutter). Primary type depository: NHML. Primary type specimens: CASENT0912244, CASENT0907580.
Type notes:
1) Kutter, 1967a: 234, 235, 236 (in measurement tables), lists 3 holotypes, one each for worker, queen and male: hence all are syntypes. 2) Seifert, 2000a: 544, cites 56 workers, 3 queens, 20 males in NHML.
- Status as species: Kutter, 1968b: 61; Kutter, 1977c: 284; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 285 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 196.
- Junior synonym of Formica foreli: Seifert, 2000a: 544; Radchenko, 2016: 312; Seifert & Schultz, 2021: 204.
Citations
- Agosti, D.; Collingwood, C. A. 1987b. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) with a key to the worker caste. II. Key to the worker caste, including the European species without the Iberian. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60:261-293. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Kutter, H. 1967a ("1966"). Einige Ergebnisse weiterer Coptoformica-Studien. Insectes Sociaux 13:227-240. PDF
- Kutter, H. 1968b ("1969"). Die sozialparasitischen Ameisen der Schweiz. Neujahrsblatt. Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Zürich 171:1-62. PDF
- Kutter, H. 1977c. Hymenoptera, Formicidae. Insecta Helvetica. Fauna 6:1-298. PDF
- Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.
- Seifert, B. 2000a. A taxonomic revision of the ant subgenus Coptoformica Mueller, 1923 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoosystema 22:517-568. PDF
- Seifert, B.; Schultz, R. 2021. A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic ant subgenus Coptoformica Müller, 1923 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Contributions to Entomology 71 (2):177-220. 10.21248/contrib.entomol.71.2.177-220 PDF
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valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
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