Formica obsoleta

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Formica obsoleta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Formicini
Genus: Formica
Species: F. obsoleta
Binomial name
Formica obsoleta
Linnaeus, 1758

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on type material

Europe (type locality).

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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • obsoleta. Formica obsoleta Linnaeus, 1758: 580 (w.) EUROPE. Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 200.

Description

References

  • Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae [= Stockholm]: L. Salvii, 824 pp. (page 580, worker described)