Myrmica siciliana
Radchenko et al., 2006:
502, figs. 2-21 (w.q.m.)
ITALY (Sicily).
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Italy: Sicily, Monti Nebrodi, 1500 m., 2.x.2004, AA 3/04 (A. Alicata). Primary type depository: MSNG.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 212 paratype workers, 7 paratype queens, 81 paratype males. Secondary type localities: a long list of localities (repeated in Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 277), the principal components of which are: 5 paratype workers, 9 paratype males with same data as holotype, 17 paratype workers, 40 paratype males Sicily, Monti Nebrodi, Piano Menta, 1500 m., 2.x.2004, AA 3/04 (A. Alicata), 8 paratype workers, 6 paratype males Monti Nebrodi, nr Pizzo Scavello, 1575 m., 1.x.2004, AA 5/04 (A. Alicata), 28 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens, 5 paratype males as last but 2.x.2004, AA 1/04 (A. Alicata), 120 paratype workers, 14 males Mt Soro, Piano Menta, ca 1550 m., 28.viii.2005 (G. Elmes). Secondary type depositories: ALPC, BMNH, MSNG, OXUM, SIZK.
- Status as species: Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 277; Borowiec, 2014: 134; Lebas et al., 2016: 322.
Citations
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
- Lebas, C.; Galkowski, C.; Blatrix, R.; Wegnez, P. 2016. Guide Delachaux: Fourmis d’Europe occidentale. Luçon: Delachaux et Niestlé, 415 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
- Radchenko, A. G.; Elmes, G. W.; Alicata, A. 2006. Taxonomic revision of the schencki-group of the ant genus Myrmica Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Palaearctic region. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 56:499-538. PDF