Formica affinis Schenck, 1852: 62 (w.q.m.) GERMANY. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Germany: Nassau, Obersbach footpath, viii.(1851?) (C.F. Schenck). Primary type depository: SMFM (perhaps also UMPU (Wilson, 1955a: 165, Collingwood, 1963b: 145 (in text)). Type notes: 1) Seifert, 1990: 7, cites workers, 2 queens in SMFM, but “without collecting data or type-labels”. 2) Schenck’s Hymenoptera specimens originally in UMPU (Horn & Kahle, 1936: 242); later transferred to SMFM.