Myrmica ruginodis

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 115

2. Myrmica ruginodis . B.M.

Myrmica ruginodis , Nyl. Adno. Mon. Form. Bor. Eur, 929. 2; Addit. Adno. Mon. Form. Bor. Eur. 1052. 19; Form. Fr. et d'Alger. 79.

Foerst. Hym. Stud. Form. 66. 36.

Schenck, Beschr. Nass. Ameis. 77.

Smith, Brit. Form. 116. 2.

Mayr. Form. Austr. 135. 4.

Myrmica vagans, Curtis , Trans. Linn. Soc. xxi. 213. 3.

Hab. Britain; France; Germany; Hungary; Finland.

This and the two following species were formerly included under the name of M. rubra . Dr. Nylander says the male is identical with the typical specimen of M. vagans in the Museum at Kiel, and that the female is the M. rubra , the male also standing as the male of M. caespitum : this confusion is entirely avoided by adopting the names proposed by Nylander for the three closely allied, but very distinct species. This species would therefore, according to the laws of priority, be the M. rubra of Fabricius; but we cannot be certain that it would be so of Linnaeus, who would undoubtedly have included this and two or three of the following species under that name.