Formica obscurata SANTSCHI, 1925

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 : 152

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.25849/myrmecol.news_031:133
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5587859
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scientific name	Formica obscurata SANTSCHI, 1925
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Formica rufa var. obscurata SANTSCHI, 1925 View in CoL [type investigation]

This taxon was described from Vernon / France (49.09°N, 1.49° E, 19 m). Investigated were two type workers from NHM Basel labelled “type”, “ F. rufa L. v. obscura Sant type SANTSCHI det. 1925”, “France Vernon (Eure) G. d. Kerville ”; the specimen with CW = 1768 μm is addition- ally labelled with “ANTWEB CASENT 0912252 ” GoogleMaps . If run as wild-card in an LDA, the type sample is allocated with p = 0.8677 to Formica rufa , with p = 0.1321 to Formica polyctena × rufa , and with p = 0.0001 to F. polyctena .