Myrmica pulchella

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Myrmica pulchella Santschi, 1937 valid

Myrmica margaritae var. pulchella Santschi, 1937h: 368 (w.) TAIWAN. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Radchenko & Elmes, 1998: 7). Primary type locality: lectotype Taiwan (“Formosa”): Musha (= Wushe), no. 726 (K. Sato). Primary type depository: NHMB. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 2 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: NHMB. Type notes: Originally described from 4 syntype workers.

Lectotype designation: Radchenko & Elmes, 1998: 7.
Replacement name for Myrmica formosae Wheeler, 1929h (Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 221). [Junior primary homonym of Podomyrma formosa Smith, 1858a.]
[Note: Myrmica pulchella junior synonym of Myrmica formosae Wheeler, 1929h; hence Myrmica pulchella first available replacement name for Myrmica formosae Wheeler, 1929h.]
Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 222 (q.)
Subspecies of Myrmica margaritae: Weber, 1950c: 219; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 127; Bolton, 1995b: 282.
Junior synonym of Myrmica formosae Wheeler, 1929h: Radchenko & Elmes, 1998: 7; Elmes & Radchenko, 1998: 222; Terayama, 2009: 160.
Status as species: Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 221; Chen et al., 2016: 118 (in key).

Obsolete combinations

Myrmica margaritae pulchella

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
Chen, Z.; Zhou, S.; Huang, J. 2016. Seven species new to science and one newly recorded species of the ant genus Myrmica Latreille, 1804 from China, with proposal of a new synonym (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 551:85-128. 10.3897/zookeys.551.6005 PDF
Elmes, G. W.; Radchenko, A. G. 1998. Ants of the genus Myrmica from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Chinese Journal of Entomology 18:217-224. 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. 2010. Myrmica ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Old World. Fauna Mundi 3. Warsaw: Natura Optima Dux Foundation, 790 pp. PDF
Santschi, F. 1937h. Fourmis du Japon et de Formose. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 77:361-388. PDF
Terayama, M. 2009. A synopsis of the family Formicidae of Taiwan (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Research Bulletin of Kanto Gakuen University. Liberal Arts 17:81-266. PDF
Weber, N. A. 1950c. A revision of the North American ants of the genus Myrmica Latreille with a synopsis of the Palearctic species. III. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 43:189-226. PDF

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