Formica exsectorubens

Formica exsectorubens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Formicini
Genus:	Formica
Species:	F. exsectorubens
Binomial name
Formica exsectorubens Ruzsky, 1905

This name was given by Ruzsky (1905, p. 359) to light colored specimens from the Volga river region which had a reddish patch on frontal face of 1st gaster tergite and which he considered as transitionary form between what he called Formica exsecta and Formica exsecta rubens (a junior synonym of F. exsecta). Ruzsky did not made further descriptive statements nor did he report collecting data or an explicit type locality (Seifert & Schultz, 2021). The existence or location of the types for this taxa is unknown and their descriptions are lacking diagnostic information. As a consequence, these taxa are incertae sedis and students of Coptoformica should not speculatively use these names in any context unless types are discovered and reliably identified (Seifert, 2000).

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Russian Federation (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Nomenclature

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

• exsectorubens. Formica exsecta var. exsectorubens Ruzsky, 1905b: page? Unidentifiable taxon: Seifert, 2000a: 562.

References

• Ruzsky, M. 1905b. The ants of Russia. (Formicariae Imperii Rossici). Systematics, geography and data on the biology of Russian ants. Part I. Tr. Obshch. Estestvoispyt. Imp. Kazan. Univ. 38(4-6 6: 1-800 (page ?, Unidentifiable taxon)
• Seifert, B 2000a. A taxonomic revision of the ant subgenus Coptoformica Mueller, 1923 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zoosystema 22:517-568.(page 562, Unidentifiable taxon)
• Seifert, B., Schultz, R. 2021. A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic ant subgenus Coptoformica Müller, 1923 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 71 (2): 177–220 (doi:10.21248/contrib.entomol.71.2.177-220).