Formica balcanina
Formica balcanina | |
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Scientific classification (junior synonym of Formica cinerea) | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Formicini |
Genus: | Formica |
Species: | Formica balcanina Petrov & Collingwood, 1993 |
This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Formica cinerea.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- balcanina. Formica balcanina Petrov & Collingwood, 1993: 349, figs. 1-5 (w.q.m.) YUGOSLAVIA. Junior synonym of cinerea: Seifert, 2002b: 251.
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 191, catalogue)
- Petrov, I. Z.; Collingwood, C. A. 1993. Formica balcanina sp. n., a new species related to the Formica cinerea-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Eur. J. Entomol. 90: 349-354. (page 349, figs. 1-5 worker, queen, male described)
- Seifert, B. 2002. A taxonomic revision of the Formica cinerea group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Abh. Ber. Naturkundemus. Görlitz 74(2): 245-272 (page 251, Junior synonym of cinerea)