Formica clara Forel 1886

Grassland, steppe and rock steppe. Nests in soil, under rocks and in small loam hills.

Statewide, very rare, absent in the mountains.

Extant: 1 valid subspecies

Formica rufibarbis var. clara Forel, 1886h PDF: 206 (w.) SYRIA. Palearctic. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Ruzsky, 1902b PDF: 471 (q.m.).Combination in Formica (Serviformica): Emery, 1925d PDF: 250.As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1894c PDF: 404; Emery, 1909b PDF: 198.Subspecies of Formica rufibarbis: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 210; Forel, 1901m PDF: 65; Ruzsky, 1902b PDF: 471; Ruzsky, 1903c PDF: 206; Bingham, 1903 PDF: 335; Forel, 1904c PDF: 384; Ruzsky, 1905b: 399; Wheeler, 1913i PDF: 516 (redescription); Ruzsky, 1915b: 14; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1923b PDF: 246; Emery, 1925d PDF: 250; Ruzsky, 1925b PDF: 44; Karavaiev, 1926e PDF: 198; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1926c PDF: 98; Karavaiev, 1927c PDF: 111; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929b PDF: 39; Stitz, 1934: 9; Santschi, 1934d PDF: 281; Stärcke, 1935a PDF: 268; Ruzsky, 1936 PDF: 92; Ruzsky, 1946 PDF: 69; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 198.Status as species: Collingwood, 1961a PDF: 68; Dlussky, 1965a PDF: 37 (in key); Dlussky, 1967a PDF: 77; Pisarski, 1967a PDF: 416; Pisarski, 1969b: 312; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1970 PDF: 88; Dlussky, 1981b PDF: 17; Dlussky et al., 1990 PDF: 139; Bolton, 1995b: 193; Schultz et al., 2006 PDF: 205; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008 PDF: 133; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 481; Seifert & Schultz, 2009b PDF: 263 (redescription); Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2009 PDF: 40; Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010 PDF: 48; Boer, 2010: 32; Csosz et al., 2011 PDF: 59; Legakis, 2011 PDF: 35; Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 492; Czechowski et al., 2012: 220; Guénard & Dunn, 2012 PDF: 31; Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 10; Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 73; Bharti et al., 2016 PDF: 27; Lebas et al., 2016: 198; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF: 45; Seifert, 2018: 308; Khalili-Moghadam et al., 2019 10.2478/pjen-2019-0013 PDF: 169.Senior synonym of Formica rufibarbis caucasica: Seifert & Schultz, 2009b PDF: 263.Senior synonym of Formica lusatica: Seifert & Schultz, 2009b PDF: 263; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 481; Legakis, 2011 PDF: 35; Czechowski et al., 2012: 220; Seifert, 2018: 308.Senior synonym of Formica rizadaghi: Dlussky et al., 1990 PDF: 139; Bolton, 1995b: 193.Material of the unavailable names Formica rufibarbis montana clara, Formica rufibarbis montivaga transversa referred here by Dlussky, 1967a PDF: 77; Bolton, 1995b: 193.

Formica lusatica Seifert, 1997

Records

(Map 63): Bulgaria [ Seifert 1997b , 2008 (as Formica lusatica )]; Plana Mt.: Plana vill., near Peyova buka hut (Pasarel vill.) ( Vagalinski and Lapeva-Gjonova in press ); Northern Black Sea coast: Obzor vill. ( Seifert and Schultz 2009 ); Southern Black Sea coast: Nesebar ( Barrett 1970 ).

Notes:

This species was not recorded for Bulgaria by Atanassov and Dlusskij (1992) , but very recently its occurrence in this country was confirmed by Seifert and Schultz (2009) .

[[ worker ]]. D'un rouge jaunatre d'ocre tres clair; front, vertex, abdomen et extremite des funicules brunatres. Pilosite un peu plus faible que chez la forme typique. Deuxieme article du funicule d'une idee plus court que le troisieme. Long. 4 a 5,5 mill.

Damas (M. le Dr Lortet).