Formica pratensoides
Gösswald, 1951
junior synonym of current valid taxon Formica pratensis Retzius, 1783
Formica minor subsp. pratensoides
Gösswald, 1951a:
455 (w.q.m.)
GERMANY.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Germany: vic. Würzburg, Rivierförsterei Irtenberg, 1944 (K. Gösswald). Primary type depository: unknown.
- Status as species: Gösswald, 1987: 107; Gösswald, 1989: 20.
- Junior synonym of Formica nigricans: Yarrow, 1955a: 4; Bernard, 1967a: 314; Bolton, 1995b: 201 (error).
- Junior synonym of Formica pratensis: Dlussky, 1967a: 84; Kutter, 1977c: 272; Seifert, 1992a: 225; Bolton, 1995b: 201; Radchenko, 2016: 291; Seifert, 2021: 160.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bernard, F. 1967a ("1968"). Faune de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen. 3. Les fourmis (Hymenoptera Formicidae) d'Europe occidentale et septentrionale. Paris: Masson, 411 pp. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Dlussky, G. M. 1967a. Ants of the genus Formica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, g. Formica). [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka Publishing House, 236 pp. PDF
- Gösswald, K. 1951a. Zur Biologie, Ökologie und Morphologie einer neuen Varietät der Kleinen Roten Waldameise: Formica minor pratensoides. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Entomologie 32:433-457. PDF
- Gösswald, K. 1987. Über System und Nomenklatur der Formica-Gruppe (Hym. Formicidae). Waldhygiene 17:97-112. PDF
- Gösswald, K. 1989. Die Waldameise. Band 1. Biologische Grundlagen, Ökologie und Verhalten. Wiesbaden: AULA-Verlag, xi + 660 pp.
- 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. 1992a. Formica nigricans Emery, 1909 - an ecomorph of Formica pratensis Retzius, 1783 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Entomologica Fennica 2:217-226. PDF
- 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
- Yarrow, I. H. H. 1955a. The British ants allied to Formica rufa L. (Hym., Formicidae). Transactions of the Society for British Entomology 12:1-48. PDF
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