Myrmica boltoni
Radchenko & Elmes, 1998:
18, fig. 4 (11-17) (w.)
NEPAL.
Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Nepal: Dhorpantan, 3000 m., 20.v.1973 (J. Martens). Primary type depository: NHMB.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 24 paratype workers. Secondary type localities: 15 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 3 paratype workers Nepal: Umg. Goropani, W Pokhara, ix.-x.1971 (H. Franz), 1 paratype worker 2 mi. SE Sikha, 7800-8000 ft, 21-22.v.1954 (J. Quinlan), 1 paratype worker Nepal: 18 km. NNW Baglung, 28°24’N, 83°42’E, 2540 m. (no collector’s name), 1 paratype worker Nepal: 23, Prov. Kosi, Dist. Sankhuwasawa, Induwa Koa Valley, 200 m., 16.iv.1984 (I. Löbl & A. Smetana), 1 paratype worker Nepal: 140, Prov. Manang, Marsyandi, 2550 m., 14-17.iv.1980 (J. Martens & Ausobsky), 2 paratype workers Nepal: 233, Prov. Gorkha, Chuing Khola, Meme Kharka, 3300-3400 m. (J. Martens & W. Schwaller). Secondary type depositories: BMNH, JMPC, NHMB, OXUM, PCAS, PSWC, SIZK.
- Status as species: Radchenko & Elmes, 2001b: 242; Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 105; Bharti et al., 2016: 963.
Citations
- Bharti, H.; Sasi, S.; Radchenko, A. 2016. Biogeography and ecology of Myrmica species in Himalayan regions. Sociobiology 63:956-975. 10.13102/sociobiology.v63i3.1145 PDF
- Radchenko, A. G.; Elmes, G. W. 1998. Taxonomic revision of the ritae species-group of the genus Myrmica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Vestnik Zoologii 32(4):3-27. PDF
- Radchenko, A. G.; Elmes, G. W. 2001b. A taxonomic revision of the ant genus Myrmica Latreille, 1804 from the Himalaya (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Entomologica Basiliensia 23:237-276. PDF
- Radchenko, A. G.; Elmes, G. W. 2010. Myrmica ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Old World. Fauna Mundi 3. Warsaw: Natura Optima Dux Foundation, 790 pp. PDF