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Species: Formica cinerea   Mayr, 1853 


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Formica cinerea cinereoimitans

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

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Formica cinerea Mayr, 1853d PDF: 281 (w.q.) AUSTRIA. Palearctic. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Mayr, 1855 PDF: 344 (m.).
Combination in Formica (Serviformica): Forel, 1915d: 64.
Subspecies of Formica fusca: Forel, 1874 PDF: 54; Emery & Forel, 1879: 451; Mayr, 1886d PDF: 427; Forel, 1892j PDF: 307; Emery, 1909b: 199; Bondroit, 1910 PDF: 483; Emery, 1914c PDF: 159.
Status as species: Mayr, 1861 PDF: 48; Emery, 1898c PDF: 126; Ruzsky, 1902d: 12; Forel, 1904c PDF: 385; Wheeler, 1913i PDF: 521; Forel, 1915d: 64; Emery, 1916a PDF: 255; Wheeler, 1917a PDF: 550; Menozzi, 1918 PDF: 88; Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 53; Müller, 1923b: 141; Emery, 1925d PDF: 246; Karavaiev, 1929d PDF: 214; Karavaiev, 1936: 224; Dlussky, 1967a PDF: 65; Bernard, 1967a PDF: 300; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1971 PDF: 157; Pisarski, 1975: 42; Kutter, 1977c: 252; Collingwood, 1979 PDF: 124; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 264.
Senior synonym of Formica brevisetosa: Finzi, 1928a PDF: 68; of Formica subrufoides: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a PDF: 59.
Material of the nomen nudum Formica cinereoglebaria referred here: Dlussky & Pisarski, 1971 PDF: 157.
Senior synonym of Formica armenica, Formica balcanina, Formica iberica, Formica imitans, Formica italica, Formica novaki: Seifert, 2002 PDF: 251.
Current subspecies: nominal plus Formica cinerea cinereoimitans.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)
Nearctic Region: Alberta
Palearctic Region: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Blagoevgrad province, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Piemonte, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sofia, South Tyrol, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Vidin

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Formica cinerea   Mayr, G. L., 1853, Beschreibungen einiger neuer Ameisen., Verhandlungen des Zoologisch-Botanischen Vereins in Wien 3, pp. 277-286: 281-282, (download) 281-282 4441
Formica cinerea   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: 18, (download) 18 3994
Formica cinerea   Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8, pp. 1-174: 124-127, (download) 124-127 6175

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 0 times found in Low prairie, 0 times found in Crataegus thicket near marsh, 1 times found in Weedy Paririe, 0 times found in garden, 0 times found in Wet meadow, Underwood, 0 times found in High prairie, 1 times found in willow thicket, 0 times found in xerothermous river valley, 0 times found in Marsh, 0 times found in young park, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 0 times 1, 0 times under stone, 0 times stairs btw. airport & carpark, 0 times on the ground, 0 times on ground, 0 times ground foragers.

Collected most commonly using these methods: 0 times search, 2 times Hand, 1 times Roadside, 0 times under rock, roadside, 0 times Log stage 3, 0 times meadow, 0 times Mound nests, 0 times under wood.

Elevations: collected from 10 - 3536 meters, 1011 meters average

Type specimens: paralectotype of Formica cinerea imitans: casent0905706; syntype of Formica cinerea: casent0915631; syntype of Formica cinerea imitans: casent0912262; syntype of Formica cinerea subrufoides: casent0911069; type of Formica cinerea: focol2750, focol2751



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