Formica fusca borealis

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Formica fusca borealis
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Formica lemani)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Formicini
Genus: Formica
Species: Formica fusca borealis
Vashkevich, 1924

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Formica lemani.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • borealis. Formica fusca subsp. borealis Vashkevich, 1924b: 147 (w.) RUSSIA. Junior synonym of lemani: Dlussky, 1965a: 35.

References

  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 192, catalogue)
  • Dlussky, G. M. 1965a. Ants of the genus Formica L. of Mongolia and northeast Tibet (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Ann. Zool. (Warsaw) 23: 15-43 (page 35, junior synonym of lemani)
  • Vashkevich, A. F. 1924b. On the ant fauna of north Tobolsk province. Izv. Tomsk. Gos. Univ. 74: 146-149 (page 147, worker described)