Formica fusca orientalis

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Formica fusca orientalis
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Formica picea)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Formicini
Genus: Formica
Species: Formica fusca orientalis
Ruzsky, 1915

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Formica picea.

Nomenclature

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

  • orientalis. Formica fusca subsp. orientalis Ruzsky, 1915a: 427, fig. 5 (w.) TIBET. Junior synonym of picea Nylander: Dlussky, 1965a: 31.

References

  • Dlussky, G. M. 1965a. Ants of the genus Formica L. of Mongolia and northeast Tibet (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Ann. Zool. (Warsaw) 23: 15-43 (page 31, Junior synonym of picea Nylander)
  • Ruzsky, M. 1915a. On the ants of Tibet and the southern Gobi. On material collected on the expedition of Colonel P. K. Kozlov. Ezheg. Zool. Muz. 20: 418-444 (page 427, fig. 5 worker described)