Formica fusca orientalis
Formica fusca orientalis | |
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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)