Formica mesasiatica

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Formica mesasiatica Dlussky, 1964 valid

Formica (Coptoformica) mesasiatica Dlussky, 1964: 1030, figs. 1(2), 2(6) (w.q.m.) KAZAKHSTAN, CHINA. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Kazakhstan: Talas Alatau, Aksu-Dzhabagly Reserve, 30.vii.1957 (G. Dlussky). Primary type depository: ZMUM. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paratype workers, paratype queens, paratype males (numbers not stated). Secondary type localities: paratypes: with same data as holotype, with same data as holotype but 25.vii.1958, no. 447, Kazakhstan: Zailinsk Alatau, upper Almatinka river, 18.vii.1938 (Yu. Kostylev), China: Alexander Ridge, Tuyuk River,19.vii.1927 (K. Arnol’di), China: Kyzyl-Ungur, 2.viii.1945 (K. Arnol’di). Secondary type depositories: NHML, RASM, ZMUM. Secondary type specimen: CASENT0903275. Type notes: Seifert, 2000a: 532, cites 1 worker paratype in NHML.

Junior synonym of Formica fukaii: Sonobe & Dlussky, 1977: 23; Bolton, 1995b: 198; Imai et al., 2003: 58 (error).
Status as species: Dlussky, 1965a: 27 (in key); Dlussky, 1967a: 102; Tarbinsky, 1976: 179 (redescription); Seifert, 2000a: 532 (redescription); Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 31; Seifert & Schultz, 2021: 194.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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Dlussky, G. M. 1965a. Ants of the genus Formica L. of Mongolia and northeast Tibet (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 23:15-43. PDF
Dlussky, G. M. 1967a. Ants of the genus Formica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, g. Formica). [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka Publishing House, 236 pp. PDF
Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. PDF
Imai, H. T.; Kihara, A.; Kondoh, M.; Kubota, M.; Kuribayashi, S.; Ogata, K.; Onoyama, K.; Taylor, R. W.; Terayama, M.; Tsukii, Y.; Yoshimura, M.; Ugawa, Y. 2003. Ants of Japan. Tokyo: Gakken, 224 pp. PDF
Seifert, B. 2000a. A taxonomic revision of the ant subgenus Coptoformica Mueller, 1923 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoosystema 22:517-568. PDF
Seifert, B.; Schultz, R. 2021. A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic ant subgenus Coptoformica Müller, 1923 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Contributions to Entomology 71 (2):177-220. 10.21248/contrib.entomol.71.2.177-220 PDF
Sonobe, R.; Dlussky, G. M. 1977. On two ant species of the genus Formica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Japan. Kontyû 45:23-25. PDF
Tarbinsky, Y. S. 1976. The ants of Kirghizia. [In Russian.]. Frunze: Ilim, 217 pp. PDF

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