Formica maculata

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Formica maculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Formicini
Genus: Formica
Species: F. maculata
Binomial name
Formica maculata
Geoffroy, 1785

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on type material

France (type locality).

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Biology

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Nomenclature

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

  • maculata. Formica maculata Geoffroy, in Fourcroy, 1785: 452 (w.?) FRANCE. [Unresolved junior primary homonym of maculata Fabricius, 1782: 491 (Bolton, 1995b: 198).] Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 198.

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