Formica gagatoides Ruzsky
44. Formica gagatoides Ruzsky, 1904 Figs. 164,180,181. Formica fusca var. gagatoides Ruzsky, 1904: 377. Formica gagatoides Ruzsky; Holgersen, 1943:10 (redescription). Worker. Black, mandibles and appendages brown. Head and alitrunk dull, gaster shining with sparse adpressed pubescent hairs - length...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.6283880 2023-05-15T15:15:20+02:00 Formica gagatoides Ruzsky Collingwood, C. A. 1979 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283880 https://zenodo.org/record/6283880 unknown Zenodo http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD3B0D337E1DDAA0E4761CC6B14CB110 https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD3B0D337E1DDAA0E4761CC6B14CB110 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283879 https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit Open Access Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC0 Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Hymenoptera Formicidae Formica Formica gagatoides article-journal ScholarlyArticle Taxonomic treatment Text 1979 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283880 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283879 2022-04-01T12:39:03Z 44. Formica gagatoides Ruzsky, 1904 Figs. 164,180,181. Formica fusca var. gagatoides Ruzsky, 1904: 377. Formica gagatoides Ruzsky; Holgersen, 1943:10 (redescription). Worker. Black, mandibles and appendages brown. Head and alitrunk dull, gaster shining with sparse adpressed pubescent hairs - length less than half interspace width. Propodeum angled in profile. Petiole scale broadly heart-scaped with more or less emarginate dorsal border. Erect hairs on gaster restricted to posterior border of tergites; mid femora normally without outstanding hairs. Length: 4.2-6.0 mm. Queen. Colour and pubescence as worker. Scutellum and gaster conspicuously shining. Pronotal hairs sparse and restricted to anterior part; mid femora bare. Length: 7.0-8.0 mm. Male. Black, legs and external genitalia yellowish. Head and alitrunk finely punctured with scutellum and propodeum as well as gaster distinctly shining. Scale broadest at apex, with shallow emargination and with scattered long hairs overreaching rounded side margins of dorsal crest. Length: 6.0-7.0 mm. Distribution. North and Central Fennoscandia from North Cape south to Buskerud and Opland in Norway, Varmland and Medelpad in Sweden and Tavastia borealis in Finland. Abundant in northern areas and in mountains, more local in centre and absent south'of latitude 60° in Norway to latitude 62° in Finland. - Range: exclusively arctic from Norway to Northeast Siberia. Biology. This is one of the few Fennoscandian species that does not occur in the Alps or other mountains of Central Europe. In behaviour and general appearance it resembles F. fusca, which it replaces in the north, but can be immediately distinguished by the shining gaster from F. fusca and from F. transkaucasica by the duller head and alitrunk. It lives in small colonies of a few hundred workers with one or a few queens. Alatae fly in July and August. : Published as part of Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., pp. 1-174 in Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8 on pages 121-122 Text Arctic Fennoscandia Fennoscandian North Cape Siberia DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Norway North Cape ENVELOPE(165.700,165.700,-70.650,-70.650) |
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44. Formica gagatoides Ruzsky, 1904 Figs. 164,180,181. Formica fusca var. gagatoides Ruzsky, 1904: 377. Formica gagatoides Ruzsky; Holgersen, 1943:10 (redescription). Worker. Black, mandibles and appendages brown. Head and alitrunk dull, gaster shining with sparse adpressed pubescent hairs - length less than half interspace width. Propodeum angled in profile. Petiole scale broadly heart-scaped with more or less emarginate dorsal border. Erect hairs on gaster restricted to posterior border of tergites; mid femora normally without outstanding hairs. Length: 4.2-6.0 mm. Queen. Colour and pubescence as worker. Scutellum and gaster conspicuously shining. Pronotal hairs sparse and restricted to anterior part; mid femora bare. Length: 7.0-8.0 mm. Male. Black, legs and external genitalia yellowish. Head and alitrunk finely punctured with scutellum and propodeum as well as gaster distinctly shining. Scale broadest at apex, with shallow emargination and with scattered long hairs overreaching rounded side margins of dorsal crest. Length: 6.0-7.0 mm. Distribution. North and Central Fennoscandia from North Cape south to Buskerud and Opland in Norway, Varmland and Medelpad in Sweden and Tavastia borealis in Finland. Abundant in northern areas and in mountains, more local in centre and absent south'of latitude 60° in Norway to latitude 62° in Finland. - Range: exclusively arctic from Norway to Northeast Siberia. Biology. This is one of the few Fennoscandian species that does not occur in the Alps or other mountains of Central Europe. In behaviour and general appearance it resembles F. fusca, which it replaces in the north, but can be immediately distinguished by the shining gaster from F. fusca and from F. transkaucasica by the duller head and alitrunk. It lives in small colonies of a few hundred workers with one or a few queens. Alatae fly in July and August. : Published as part of Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., pp. 1-174 in Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8 on pages 121-122 |
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