See Also:
Formica rufibarbis_cf,
Formica rufibarbis clarorufibarbis,
Formica rufibarbis subpilosorufibarbis
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2021)
Extant: 2 valid subspecies
Taxonomic history
Subspecies of
Formica fusca:
Forel, 1874 PDF: 54;
Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 451;
Mayr, 1886d PDF: 427;
Cresson, 1887 PDF: 257;
Forel, 1889 PDF: 256;
Mayr, 1889 PDF: 279;
Forel, 1892j PDF: 307;
Lameere, 1892: 63;
Emery, 1893m PDF: 196 (footnote);
Forel, 1894c PDF: 403;
Forel, 1895f PDF: 457;
Ruzsky, 1896 PDF: 70;
Saunders, 1896 PDF: 22;
Forel, 1899b PDF: 128;
Ruzsky, 1904b: 4;
Forel, 1906b PDF: 85;
Wheeler, 1908k PDF: 406;
Emery, 1909b PDF: 197;
Forel, 1909c PDF: 105;
Bondroit, 1910 PDF: 483;
Karavaiev, 1910 PDF: 269;
Krausse, 1912c PDF: 165;
Stitz, 1914 PDF: 93;
Forel, 1915d: 64;
Emery, 1916a PDF: 255;
Stitz, 1917 PDF: 350;
Escherich, 1917: 336 (in key);
Santschi, 1919e PDF: 247;
Soudek, 1922b PDF: 84;
Menozzi, 1922c PDF: 331;
Schkaff, 1925b PDF: 276;
Gösswald, 1932 PDF: 46.
Status as species:
Fabricius, 1804 PDF: 402;
Jurine, 1807 PDF: 273;
Roger, 1863b PDF: 13;
Emery, 1869b PDF: 9;
André, 1874b: 185 (in key);
Mayr, 1877a: 7;
Emery, 1878a PDF: ix (in list);
Emery, 1878: 49;
Mayr, 1880 PDF: 26;
André, 1881c PDF: 59;
André, 1882c PDF: 182 (in key);
Costa, 1884 PDF: 34;
Provancher, 1887: 233 (in key);
Nasonov, 1889: 19;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 209;
Medina, 1893 PDF: 104;
Forel, 1895e PDF: 227;
Emery, 1898c PDF: 126;
Ruzsky, 1902a PDF: 233;
Ruzsky, 1902d PDF: 11;
Ruzsky, 1902e PDF: 16;
Wheeler, 1902f PDF: 947;
Ruzsky, 1903b PDF: 303;
Ruzsky, 1903c PDF: 206;
Bingham, 1903 PDF: 335;
Forel, 1904c PDF: 384;
Ruzsky, 1905b: 385;
Wasmann, 1906 PDF: 112 (in key);
Karavaiev, 1911a PDF: 16;
Wheeler, 1913i PDF: 514 (redescription);
Ruzsky, 1915b: 12;
Forel, 1915d: 64 (in key);
Donisthorpe, 1915f: 320;
Karavaiev, 1916a PDF: 507;
Emery, 1916a PDF: 255;
Ruzsky, 1916: 5;
Wheeler, 1917a PDF: 550;
Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 51;
Crawley, 1920b PDF: 178;
Santschi, 1921a PDF: 116;
Kulmatycki, 1922 PDF: 84;
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1923b PDF: 245;
Wheeler, 1923c PDF: 4;
Müller, 1923b PDF: 140;
Finzi, 1923a PDF: 4;
Lomnicki, 1925a PDF: 18 (in key);
Emery, 1925d PDF: 249;
Ruzsky, 1925a PDF: 287;
Ruzsky, 1925b PDF: 44;
Santschi, 1925g PDF: 353;
Karavaiev, 1926e PDF: 198;
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1926c PDF: 97;
Santschi, 1926f PDF: 289;
Stärcke, 1926a PDF: 148 (in key);
Donisthorpe, 1927c: 368;
Karavaiev, 1927a PDF: 302;
Karavaiev, 1927d: 286 (in key);
Karavaiev, 1927e PDF: 346;
Menozzi, 1927b PDF: 92;
Lomnicki, 1928 PDF: 9;
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929b PDF: 38;
Wheeler, 1929g PDF: 10;
Karavaiev, 1930b PDF: 148;
Stitz, 1930a PDF: 238;
Karavaiev, 1931c PDF: 113;
Karavaiev, 1931e PDF: 216;
Soudek, 1931 PDF: 17;
Santschi, 1932h PDF: 5;
Arnol'di, 1933a: 604 (in key);
Grandi, 1935 PDF: 104;
Karavaiev, 1935b PDF: 109;
Karavaiev, 1936: 234 (redescription);
Ruzsky, 1936 PDF: 92;
Stitz, 1939: 355;
Menozzi, 1939a PDF: 322 (in key);
Holgersen, 1940 PDF: 186;
Novák & Sadil, 1941 PDF: 107 (in key);
Röszler, 1942a PDF: 59;
Holgersen, 1943c PDF: 176 (in key);
Holgersen, 1944a PDF: 191;
Ruzsky, 1946 PDF: 69;
Van Boven, 1947b PDF: 188 (in key);
Arnol'di, 1948a PDF: 212 (in list);
Röszler, 1950 PDF: 215;
Donisthorpe, 1950e PDF: 1065;
Creighton, 1950a PDF: 539;
Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 198;
Consani & Zangheri, 1952 PDF: 45;
Yarrow, 1954a PDF: 231;
Ceballos, 1956: 320;
Baroni Urbani, 1964a PDF: 7;
Baroni Urbani, 1964c PDF: 167;
Dlussky, 1965a PDF: 37 (in key);
Dlussky, 1967a PDF: 73;
Bernard, 1967a PDF: 297 (redescription);
Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969 PDF: 90;
Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 240;
Collingwood, 1971 PDF: 169;
Dlussky & Pisarski, 1971 PDF: 163 (redescription);
Banert & Pisarski, 1972 PDF: 355;
Francoeur, 1973 PDF: 228;
Bolton & Collingwood, 1975: 6 (in key);
Pisarski, 1975: 43;
Van Boven, 1977 PDF: 164;
Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 94 (in key);
Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 553 (in key);
Collingwood, 1979 PDF: 128;
Dlussky, 1981b PDF: 17;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a PDF: 59;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 286 (in key);
Dlussky et al., 1990 PDF: 139;
Arakelian, 1994 PDF: 98;
Douwes, 1995: 98;
Bolton, 1995b: 202;
Poldi et al., 1995: 8;
Espadaler, 1997g PDF: 28;
Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 26 (in key);
Gallé et al., 1998: 217;
Collingwood & Heatwole, 2002 PDF: 14;
Chang & He, 2002a PDF: 52 (in key);
Czechowski et al., 2002 PDF: 84;
Karaman & Karaman, 2003 PDF: 51;
Csosz & Markó, 2005 PDF: 233;
Karaman & Karaman, 2005 PDF: 61;
Bračko, 2006 PDF: 148;
Cagniant, 2006 PDF: 195;
Markó et al., 2006 PDF: 68;
Petrov, 2006 PDF: 70, 112 (in key);
Bračko, 2007 PDF: 20;
Seifert, 2007: 301;
Werner & Wiezik, 2007 PDF: 144;
Zryanin & Zryanina, 2007 PDF: 233;
Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008 PDF: 134;
Paknia et al., 2008 PDF: 154;
Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 482;
Seifert & Schultz, 2009b PDF: 260 (redescription);
Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010 PDF: 54;
Boer, 2010: 32;
Csosz et al., 2011 PDF: 59;
Karaman, 2011a PDF: 80;
Legakis, 2011 PDF: 36;
Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 496;
Czechowski et al., 2012: 215;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012 PDF: 32;
Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 11;
Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 78 (see note in bibliography);
Bračko et al., 2014 PDF: 19;
Bharti et al., 2016 PDF: 27;
Lebas et al., 2016: 198;
Radchenko, 2016: 306;
Salata & Borowiec, 2018c 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF: 45;
Seifert, 2018: 309.
Senior synonym of
Formica stenoptera:
Roger, 1863b PDF: 13;
André, 1874c: 202 (in list);
Forel, 1874 PDF: 98 (in list);
Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 451;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 210;
Forel, 1894c PDF: 403;
Donisthorpe, 1915f: 320;
Emery, 1925d PDF: 250;
Donisthorpe, 1927c: 368;
Karavaiev, 1936: 234;
Stitz, 1939: 355;
Yarrow, 1954a PDF: 231;
Dlussky, 1967a PDF: 73;
Bolton, 1995b: 203;
Radchenko, 2016: 306.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Americas: Canada Asia: China,
Lebanon Europe: Belgium,
Bulgaria,
Czech Republic,
Denmark,
Estonia,
France,
Germany,
Greece,
Netherlands,
Poland,
Spain,
Sweden,
Switzerland,
United Kingdom Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Nearctic,
Palearctic
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
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Paknia, O., Radchenko, A. & Alipanah, H., 2008, A preliminary checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Iran., Myrmecologische Nachrichten 11, pp. 151-159: 155, (download) |
155 |
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Forel, A., 1904, Note sur les fourmis du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences à St. Pétersbourg., Yezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk 8, pp. 368-388: 17, (download) |
17 |
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Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8, pp. 1-174: 128, (download) |
128 |
6175
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Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 168 times found in Unknown, 77 times found in heathlands, 31 times found in anthropogenic, 31 times found in dry grassland, 28 times found in Rocks (rocky-calcareous grasslands), 8 times found in shrubs, 6 times found in Meadow, 3 times found in Meadow on river border, 2 times found in Urbano, 3 times found in Ruderal, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 9 times on the ground, 8 times ground foragers, 4 times Forrajeando, 6 times ground nest, 5 times nbp, 4 times on ground, 2 times Nido bajo piedra, 3 times Foraging, 3 times Nest under stone, 3 times Nest inmeadow, 2 times roadside, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 131 times Pitfall trap, 74 times Manual catch, 45 times search, 34 times Hand, 7 times Malaise trap, 5 times insect net, 4 times Green color trap, 3 times Color trap, 2 times Window trap, 2 times light trap, 1 times Alcohol trap, ...
Elevations: collected from 10 - 2058 meters, 762 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1866-05-08 and 2020-09-12
Type specimens: Lectotype of Formica fusca cinereorufibarbis: casent0911067; neotype of Formica rufibarbis: antweb1008421; type of Formica rufibarbis: casent0903271; Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Formica fusca rufibarbis cinereoides: casent0911075
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