Protonym: Formica aliena
Authorship Foerster, 1850a: 36
Forms w.m.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality GERMANY
Primary type information Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Seifert, 2020a: 61). Primary type locality: neotype Germany: GER: Eifel, 37 km. SE Aachen, Schleiden, 7.ix.1991 (B. Seifert). Primary type depository: SMNG (other material from the series is in BMNH, SMNG).
Type notes 1) Initial neotype designation by Seifert, 1992b: 13, is invalid as “a nest sample of 11 workers” was cited as neotypes. 2) Original syntype data: workers, males Germany: Aachen, Lousberg (A. Foerster). 3) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 78, Foerster’s formicid types are in MNHU, but Seifert, 1992b: 13, says Foerster’s ant material is “almost completely consumed by insect pests”; further, Seifert & Schultz, 2009b: 271, state that “According to our own search in German collections type material of Förster is completely destroyed”.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Acanthomyops niger alienus Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Lasius alienus (Foerster, 1850)
Formica aliena Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Lasius alienus (Foerster, 1850)
Original combination
Lasius alienus Species Valid
Lasius niger alienus Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Lasius alienus (Foerster, 1850)