A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic members of the Formica rufa group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) - the famous mound-building red wood ants Author Seifert, Bernhard text Myrmecological News 2021 2021-04-28 31 133 179 http://zoobank.org/0e55c0d7-531a-48d7-a078-148b96bd461d journal article 10.25849/myrmecol.news_031:133 b9f36fb1-1c9d-4af8-96ca-d57973b94862 1997-3500 5582216 0E55C0D7-531A-48D7-A078-148B96BD461D Formica piniphila SCHENCK, 1852 Formica piniphila SCHENCK, 1852 [description and zoogeography] This taxon was described from Hessen-Nassau. Types were not available. SCHENCK (1852) reported for the worker “mesosoma always homogenously covered by setae, eyes bare, mesosoma with two small, pale blackish spots, the latter often missing” and for the gyne “scutellum and gaster brilliantly shiny.” As SCHENCK (1852) correctly described differential characters of Formica polyctena , Formica pratensis , and Formica truncorum and because no other Formica rufa group species are expectable for Hessen-Nassau, the synonymy with F. rufa is obvious.