Formica animosa

Formica animosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Formicini
Genus:	Formica
Species:	F. animosa
Binomial name
Formica animosa Forskål, 1775

Distribution

Distribution based on type material

Egypt? (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Nomenclature

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

• animosa. Formica animosa Forskål, 1775: 85 (w.) EGYPT ?. Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 191.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 191, catalogue)
• Forskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post mortum auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Hauniae [= Copenhagen]: Moeller, xxxiv + 164 pp. (page 85, worker described)