Formica species groups

A beginning on organizing some resources related to the many groupings of Formica species.......

Coptiformica
Seifert (2000) - The Palaearctic subgenus Coptoformica Mueller, 1923 belongs to the ant genus Formica and is most probably monophyletic.


 * Coptoformica diagnosis/discussion/list of species
 * Key to Formica subgenus Coptoformica workers of Europe
 * Key to Formica subgenus Coptoformica queens of Europe

pallidefulva
Trager et al (2007) - The Formica pallidefulva species group is endemic to eastern and central United States, with two species extending west into the Great Plains and lower elevations in the Rocky Mountains and north into eastern Canada.


 * pallidefulva group diagnosis/discussion/list of species
 * Key to US Formica pallidefulva group species

rufa

 * Key to Nearctic species in the Formica rufa group

rufibarbis
Formica rufibarbis group diagnosis/list of species