Formica erratica Latreille 1798

Seifert, Bernhard, Kaufmann, Bernard & Fraysse, Lorenzo, 2024, A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic species of the ant genus Tapinoma Mayr 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Zootaxa 5435 (1), pp. 1-74 : 34

Formica erratica Latreille 1798 [type investigation]

The species has been described from Brive, France. Investigated were the neotype worker plus two workers from the neotype nest labelled “FRA: 45.0517°N, 1.5372°E, Nespouls-Faugère, 330 m, along road, under stone, leg. Galkowski 2008.07.02 ” and “ Neotype Tapinoma erraticum (Latreille 1798) , design. B.Seifert 2010”; depository SMN Görlitz. The neotype sample is allocated to the T. erraticum cluster with p= 1.000 in a wild-card run of a LDA considering 12 morphometric characters (see below) .