Myrmica fortior

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Myrmica fortior Forel, 1904 valid

Myrmica smythiesii var. fortior Forel, 1904d: 22 (w.) INDIA (Jammu and Kashmir). Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Radchenko & Elmes, 2001b: 251). Primary type locality: lectotype India: Kashmir, Sind Valley, 6500 ft (R.C. Wroughton). Primary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 2 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MHNG, MSNG. Type notes: 1) Other original syntype localities: India: NW Himalaya, Deota (Smythies), Russia: E Siberia, S Ussuri (no collector’s name). 2) The Russian specimens were excluded from Myrmica fortior by Radchenko & Elmes, 2001b: 254, as misidentifications.

Lectotype designation: Radchenko & Elmes, 2001b: 251.
Radchenko & Elmes, 2002: 39 (q.m.)
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Ruzsky, 1905b: 660.
Subspecies of Myrmica smythiesii: Forel, 1906b: 87; Emery, 1908a: 168; Emery, 1921c: 41; Menozzi, 1939a: 295 (in key); Weber, 1947b: 460; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 130; Bolton, 1995b: 279.
Status as species: Radchenko & Elmes, 2001b: 254; Radchenko & Elmes, 2002: 39; Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 136; Bharti et al., 2016: 40; Bharti et al., 2016: 965.

Obsolete combinations

Myrmica smythiesii fortior

Citations

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Radchenko, A. G.; Elmes, G. W. 2002. First descriptions of the sexual forms of seven Himalayan Myrmica species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Vestnik Zoologii 36(5):35-46. PDF
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