Protonym: Formica libera
Authorship Scopoli, 1763: 313
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality SLOVENIA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Slovenia (“Carniola”): (no further data) (J.A. Scopoli). Primary type depository: unknown.
Type notes 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Horn & Kahle, 1936: 252, say something about a shipwreck concerning Scopoli’s collection, and then “destroyed by fire”.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica libera Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Formica fusca Linnaeus, 1758
Original combination