Protonym: Formica nigra
Authorship Linnaeus, 1758: 580
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality SWEDEN
Primary type information Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Seifert, 1991b: 71). Primary type locality: neotype Sweden: S: B1, Johannishus, 1 km. NE k: a, RN-03F6f03, 10.viii.1974 (P. Douwes). Primary type depository: ZMLS.
Type notes 1) Original type data: holotype (?) worker, “Habitat in Europae” (no further data), depository presumably ZMLS, material lost. 2) Type locality Sweden, indicated by Linnaeus, 1761: 427. 3) Day & Fitton, 1978: 196, found no material in LSLC.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Acanthomyops niger Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Lasius niger (Linnaeus, 1758)
Formica nigra Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Lasius niger (Linnaeus, 1758)
Original combination
Lasius niger Species Valid
Lasius niger niger Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Lasius niger (Linnaeus, 1758)