Protonym: Formica timida
Authorship Foerster, 1850a: 35
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality GERMANY
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Germany: vic. Aachen (A. Foerster). Primary type depository: unknown (no material known to exist).
Type notes According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 78, Foerster’s formicid types are in MNHU, but 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
Formica timida Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Lasius timida (Foerster, 1850)
Original combination
Lasius timida Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Lasius brunneus (Latreille, 1798)