Protonym: Formica fusca
Authorship Linnaeus, 1758: 580
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality EUROPE
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Europe: (“Habitat in Europae.”) (no further data). Primary type depository: unknown (no material known to exist (Yarrow, 1954a: 232)).
Type notes 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Linnaeus, 1761: 426, gives the type locality as Sweden, accepted by Yarrow, 1954a: 232. 3) One Linnaean specimen is cited in LSLC by Day & Fitton, 1978: 196, but it is not known if this is type material.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica fusca Species Valid Original combination
Formica fusca fusca Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Formica fusca Linnaeus, 1758