Formica paralugubris
Seifert, 1996
valid
Formica paralugubris
Seifert, 1996a:
199, figs. 4, 5 (w.q.)
SWITZERLAND.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Switzerland: Jura Mts, 5 km. SSW Le Brassus, nr Chalet a Roch Field Station, nest no. G5, vi.1994 (B. Seifert). Primary type depository: SMNG. Primary type specimen: FOCOL0762.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 30 paratype workers, 4 paratype queens. Secondary type locality: 4 paratype queens with same data as holotype, 6 paratype workers with same data as holotype but 5.v.1993, 24 paratype workers with same data as holotype but 5.v.1993, nests G1-G4. Secondary type depository: SMNG.
- Status as species: Seifert, 2007: 316; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 482; Borowiec, 2014: 76; Lebas et al., 2016: 172; Seifert, 2016a: 14; Steiner et al., 2017: 9; Seifert, 2018: 327; Seifert, 2021: 167 (diagnosis).
- [Note: Seifert, 2021: 152, 175 reports on Formica aquilonia × Formica paralugubris hybrids.]
Citations
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
- Casevitz-Weulersse, J.; Galkowski, C. 2009. Liste actualisée des fourmis de France (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 114:475-510. PDF
- Lebas, C.; Galkowski, C.; Blatrix, R.; Wegnez, P. 2016. Guide Delachaux: Fourmis d’Europe occidentale. Luçon: Delachaux et Niestlé, 415 pp.
- Seifert, B. 1996a. Formica paralugubris nov. spec. - a sympatric sibling species of Formica lugubris from the western Alps (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicoidea: Formicidae). Reichenbachia 31:193-201. PDF
- Seifert, B. 2007. Die Ameisen Mittel- und Nordeuropas. Tauer: lutra Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, 368 pp.
- Seifert, B. 2016a. The supercolonial European wood ant Formica paralugubris Seifert, 1996 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) introduced to Canada and its predicted role in Nearctic forests. Myrmecological News 22:11-20. PDF
- Seifert, B. 2018. The ants of Central and North Europe:. Boxberg: Lutra, 407 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
- Steiner, F. M.; Ambach, J.; Glaser, F.; Wagner, H. C.; Müller, J.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C. 2017. Checklisten der Fauna Ősterreichs, No. 9: Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Wien: Ősterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1-23.