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Formica nigra Forskål, 1775 unidentifiable

Formica nigra Forskål, 1775: xxiii (no sex/caste given) NO LOCALITY GIVEN.

Primary type information: Primary type material: unknown (no sex/caste indicated). Primary type locality: unknown (no locality indicated). Primary type depository: unknown (no material known to exist). Type notes: According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 79, Forskål material should be in ZMUC.

[Unresolved junior primary homonym of Lasius niger Linnaeus, 1758.]
Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica.
[Note: Emery, 1892c: 160, suggested this may be a Camponotus species, perhaps Camponotus aethiops.]

Citations

Emery, C. 1892c ("1891"). Note sinonimiche sulle formiche. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 23:159-167. PDF
Forskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post mortum auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Hauniae [= Copenhagen]: Moeller, xxxiv + 164 pp.
Horn, W.; Kahle, I. 1935. Sammlungen, welche ihren Eigentümer gewechselt haben [Part 1]. Entomologische Beihefte aus Berlin-Dahlem 2:1-160.

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