Protonym: Formica rufibarbis var. caucasica
Authorship Wheeler, 1913i: 517
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality CAUCASUS
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Seifert & Schultz, 2009b: 263). Primary type locality: lectotype Kavkaz (= Caucasus region) (no further data) (Ruzsky). Primary type depository: ZMUM.
Type notes Original syntype localities: Russia: Dagestan, Khodzhal-Makha, vi.1899 (Ruzsky?), Dagestan, foot of Atly-buyun, 1899 (no collector’s name), Armenia (“Zakavkaz”): Aralykh, 14.ix.1900 (Satunin), Georgia: road from Abastuman to Akhaltsykh, 1899 (no collector’s name).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica rufibarbis caucasica Subspecies Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Formica clara Forel, 1886
Original combination