Formica atra Schilling

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Formica atra Schilling
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Formicini
Genus: Formica
Species: F. atra
Binomial name
Formica atra
Schilling, 1839

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on type material

Poland (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.

  • atra. Formica atra Schilling, 1839: 54 (w.) POLAND. [Unresolved junior primary homonym of atra Zetterstedt, 1838: 450 (Bolton, 1995b: 191).] Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 191.

Description

References

  • Schilling, P. S. 1839. Bemerkungen über die in Schlesien und der Grafschaft Glatz vorgefundenen Arten der Ameisen. Uebers. Arb. Veränd. Schles. Ges. Vaterl. Kult. 1838: 51-56 (page 54, worker described)
  • Zetterstedt, J. W. 1838. Insecta Lapponica. Sectio secunda. Hymenoptera. Lipsiae [= Leipzig]: L. Voss, pp. 317-475.