Formica ruficornis
Formica ruficornis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Formicini |
Genus: | Formica |
Species: | F. ruficornis |
Binomial name | |
Formica ruficornis Gmelin, 1790 |
Identification
Distribution
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Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- ruficornis. Formica ruficornis Gmelin, in Linnaeus, 1790: 2805 (q.) EUROPE. Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 203.
Description
References
- Carroll, T.M. 2011. The ants of Indiana (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). M.S. thesis, Purdue University.
- Gmelin, J. F. 1790. Caroli a Linné, systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Tomus I. Pars V. Lipsiae [= Leipzig]: G. E. (page 2805, queen described)