Formica gibbosa

Radchenko et al. (2021) question the placement of this taxon within the genus Formica. They note that F. gibbosa is too large: ca. 10.5 mm, its head is ovoid (“ovoideum”) and the mesosoma is extremely elevated (“Thorax ovoideus, eximie elevates”).

Distribution
This taxon was described from.

Nomenclature

 * † gibbosa. †Formica gibbosa Presl, 1822: 197 (no caste) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). [Unresolved junior primary homonym of gibbosa Latreille, 1798: 50 (Bolton, 1995b: 196).]

Type Material
Kohout (2008) - Syntype workers. SRI LANKA, Puwakpitiya (E. Bugnion), (examined).