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 thyssei STÄRCKE, 1942 Formica pratensis ab. thyssei STÄRCKE, 1942 [ type investigation] This taxon was described from the Netherlands in a gyne collected at Eerbeek op de Veluwe , June 1916 , leg. F. T . Valck Lucassen. This type from NBC Leiden was in- vestigated and belongs to the less hairy P-morph as defined by SEIFERT (1992) .