Formica pratensoides GÖSSWALD, 1951

Seifert, Bernhard, 2021, A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic members of the Formica rufa group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) - the famous mound-building red wood ants, Myrmecological News 31, pp. 133-179 : 160

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.25849/myrmecol.news_031:133
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5584836
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scientific name	Formica pratensoides GÖSSWALD, 1951
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Formica minor ssp. pratensoides GÖSSWALD, 1951 [description, zoogeography]

This taxon was described from near Würzburg ( Germany): “Revierförsterei Irtenberg, Forstamt Waldbrunn”. GÖSSWALD (1951) reported a large, clearly demarcated black patch on promesonotum of the workers and gynes having 110 - 115% of the size of Formica rufa and a completely matt gaster surface. It becomes obvious from his lengthy treatise that GÖSSWALD (1951) studied a polygynous-polydomous colony of Formica pratensis . Such colony types up to true supercolonial conditions have been repeatedly observed in forests of the planar and colline zone of Germany ( SEIFERT 1992, 2018).

References

GOSSWALD, K. 1951: Zur Biologie, Okologie und Morphologie einer neuen Varietat der Kleinen Roten Waldameise: Formica minor pratensoides. - Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Entomologie 32: 433 - 457.

SEIFERT, B. 1992: Formica nigricans EMERY, 1909 - an ecomorph of Formica pratensis RETZIUS, 1783 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). - Entomologica Fennica 2: 217 - 226.

SEIFERT, B. 2018: The ants of Central and North Europe. - Lutra Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Tauer, 408 pp.