Formica rupestris

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Formica rupestris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Formicini
Genus: Formica
Species: F. rupestris
Binomial name
Formica rupestris
Leach, 1825

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on type material

France (type locality).

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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • rupestris. Formica rupestris Leach, 1825: 291 (w.q.m.) FRANCE. Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 203.

Description

References

  • Leach, W. E. 1825. Descriptions of thirteen species of Formica and three species of Culex found in the environs of Nice. Zool. J. Lond. 2: 289-293 (page 291, worker, queen, male described)