Formica polyctena Forster
59. Formica polyctena Forster, 1850 Figs. 172,236-241. Formica polyctena Forster, 1850: 15. Worker. Erect hairs on head and alitrunk very sparse and short or absent, except on posterior margins of mesopleura. Gula hairs, if present, are restricted to one or two very weak hairs. Microsculpture is usu...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.6283914 2023-05-15T16:12:13+02:00 Formica polyctena Forster Collingwood, C. A. 1979 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283914 https://zenodo.org/record/6283914 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.6283913 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 polyctena article-journal ScholarlyArticle Taxonomic treatment Text 1979 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283914 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283913 2022-04-01T12:39:03Z 59. Formica polyctena Forster, 1850 Figs. 172,236-241. Formica polyctena Forster, 1850: 15. Worker. Erect hairs on head and alitrunk very sparse and short or absent, except on posterior margins of mesopleura. Gula hairs, if present, are restricted to one or two very weak hairs. Microsculpture is usually slightly coarser than in F. rufa but punctures and micropunctures are widely spaced as in that species. Length: 4.0-8.5 mm. Queen. As F. rufa but middle of scutellum less shining, with fine longitudinal striae and punctures. Frons distinctly shining but rest of body due to coarser sculpture presenting a somewhat more matt appearance than in F. rufa. Length: 9.0-10.5 mm. Male. Eye hairs very sparse and short. Erect hairs on promesonotum sparse, very short or absent on metanotum. Punctures on gaster and frons shallow and widely spaced. Length: 9.0-10.5 mm. Distribution. Local, Denmark: EJ, NEJ, NEZ. - Sweden: Sk., Bl., Hall., Gtl., Nrk., Sdm., Upl., Vrm. - Norway: 0, AK, VE. - Finland: N, Ka, Ta. - Not found in England. - Range: Spain to Siberia, Italian Alps to latitude 60° in Sweden. Biology. This is accepted as a good species by most European authors, eg. Betrem (1960), Dlussky (1967), Kutter (1977). Some samples of F. rufa tend to approach the hairless condition of F. polyctena however, making certain determination sometimes difficult. Elton (priv. communication) found that F. polyctena in its most typical form readily accepted fertile queens and pupae from other distant nests of the same species but were always antagonistic to and rejected such from both polygonous and monogynous colonies of F. rufa. This is usually found in a group of nests and always has many queens, sometimes up to 1,000 or more. : Published as part of Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., pp. 1-174 in Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8 on page 144 Text Fennoscandia Siberia DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Norway |
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59. Formica polyctena Forster, 1850 Figs. 172,236-241. Formica polyctena Forster, 1850: 15. Worker. Erect hairs on head and alitrunk very sparse and short or absent, except on posterior margins of mesopleura. Gula hairs, if present, are restricted to one or two very weak hairs. Microsculpture is usually slightly coarser than in F. rufa but punctures and micropunctures are widely spaced as in that species. Length: 4.0-8.5 mm. Queen. As F. rufa but middle of scutellum less shining, with fine longitudinal striae and punctures. Frons distinctly shining but rest of body due to coarser sculpture presenting a somewhat more matt appearance than in F. rufa. Length: 9.0-10.5 mm. Male. Eye hairs very sparse and short. Erect hairs on promesonotum sparse, very short or absent on metanotum. Punctures on gaster and frons shallow and widely spaced. Length: 9.0-10.5 mm. Distribution. Local, Denmark: EJ, NEJ, NEZ. - Sweden: Sk., Bl., Hall., Gtl., Nrk., Sdm., Upl., Vrm. - Norway: 0, AK, VE. - Finland: N, Ka, Ta. - Not found in England. - Range: Spain to Siberia, Italian Alps to latitude 60° in Sweden. Biology. This is accepted as a good species by most European authors, eg. Betrem (1960), Dlussky (1967), Kutter (1977). Some samples of F. rufa tend to approach the hairless condition of F. polyctena however, making certain determination sometimes difficult. Elton (priv. communication) found that F. polyctena in its most typical form readily accepted fertile queens and pupae from other distant nests of the same species but were always antagonistic to and rejected such from both polygonous and monogynous colonies of F. rufa. This is usually found in a group of nests and always has many queens, sometimes up to 1,000 or more. : Published as part of Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., pp. 1-174 in Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8 on page 144 |
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