Myrmica limanica
Karavaiev, 1934
junior synonym of current valid taxon Myrmica gallienii Bondroit, 1920
Myrmica (Myrmica) rugulosa subsp. limanica
Karavaiev, 1934:
75, fig. 20 (w.m.)
Attributed to Arnol’di; date of publication 27.ix.1934.
UKRAINE.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: 9 syntype workers, 4 syntype males. Primary type locality: 7 workers, 3 males Ukraine: Donets Estuary, Kharkov Dist., Zmiev, 9.ix.1931, no. 5478 (K. Arnoldi), 2 workers, 1 male with same data but ix.1934, nos 5625, 5323. Primary type depositories: SIZK, ZMUM.
- [Also described as new by Arnol'di, 1934: 162; date of publication 10.x.1934.]
- Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 138, designate lectotype and paralectotype specimens based on material recorded by Arnol'di, 1934: 162, which shows the same locality as the Karavaiev syntype data but is not an exact match as regards collection dates and collection numbers.
- Subspecies of Myrmica rugulosa: Karavaiev, 1936: 274; Weber, 1948a: 307.
- Status as species: Arnol'di, 1970b: 1834 (in key), 1840; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 532 (in key).
- Junior synonym of Myrmica gallienii: Collingwood, 1979: 48; Seifert, 1988b: 9; Radchenko, 1994f: 76; Bolton, 1995b: 280; Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 138; Radchenko, 2016: 156.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Arnol'di, K. V. 1934. Studien über die Systematik der Ameisen. VIII. Vorläufige Ergebnisse einer biometrischen Untersuchung einiger Myrmica-Arten aus dem europäischen Teile der USSR. Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica 6:151-174. PDF
- Arnol'di, K. V. 1970b. Review of the ant genus Myrmica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the European part of the USSR. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 49:1829-1844. PDF
- Arnol'di, K. V.; Dlussky, G. M. 1978. Superfam. Formicoidea. 1. Fam. Formicidae - ants. [In Russian.]. Pp. 519-556 in: Medvedev, G. S. (ed.) 1978. Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. 3. Hymenoptera. Part 1. [In Russian.]. Opredeliteli Faune SSSR 119:3-584.
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Collingwood, C. A. 1979. The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8:1-174. PDF
- Karavaiev, V. 1934. The fauna of the family Formicidae (ants) of the Ukraine. [In Ukrainian.]. Trudy Instytutu Zoolohii ta Biolohii Vseukrains'koi Akademii Nauk. Seriya 1. Pratsi z Systematyky ta Faunistyky 1934:1-164.
- Karavaiev, V. 1936. The fauna of the family Formicidae (ants) of the Ukraine. Part II (conclusion). [In Ukrainian.]. Trudy Instytutu Zoolohii ta Biolohii Ukrains'koi Akademii Nauk. Seriya 1. Pratsi z Systematyky ta Faunistyky 1936:161-316.
- Radchenko, A. G. 1994f. Survey of the species of the scabrinodis group of the genus Myrmica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from central and eastern Palearctic. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 73(9):75-82. PDF
- Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.
- 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
- Seifert, B. 1988b. A taxonomic revision of the Myrmica species of Europe, Asia Minor, and Caucasia (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Görlitz 62(3):1-75. PDF
- Weber, N. A. 1948a. A revision of the North American ants of the genus Myrmica Latreille with a synopsis of the Palearctic species. II. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 41:267-308. PDF
Extant: 0 valid subspecies (1 synonym)