Myrmica sabuleti var. spinosior
Santschi, 1931a:
3 (w.q.m.)
FRANCE.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Seifert, 2005: 4). Primary type locality: lectotype France: Pyrénées-Occidentales, Irun, 25-26.iii.1926 (Lindberg). 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:
1) Lectotype labelled by Radchenko & Elmes, 2002; this designation was not published. 2) Santschi, 1931a: 3, cited as Myrmica spinosior the material incorrectly recorded as Myrmica wesmaeli by Finzi, 1926: 97; but Santschi, 1931c: 346, mentioned only Spain, France (Corsica) and Italy.
- Lectotype designation: Seifert, 2005: 4.
- [Also described as new by Santschi, 1931c: 346.]
- Subspecies of Myrmica sabuleti: Weber, 1948a: 296; Ceballos, 1956: 297; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 32.
- Junior synonym of Myrmica sabuleti: Seifert, 1988b: 31; Casevitz-Weulersse, 1990b: 137; Radchenko, 1994f: 80; Bolton, 1995b: 283; Poldi et al., 1995: 2.
- Status as species: Seifert, 2005: 7; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 491; Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 289; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 23; Seifert et al., 2014: 178; Borowiec, 2014: 135; Lebas et al., 2016: 318.
- Senior synonym of Myrmica rolandi reticulata: Seifert et al., 2014: 178 (in text).
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Baroni Urbani, C. 1971c. Catalogo delle specie di Formicidae d'Italia (Studi sulla mirmecofauna d'Italia X). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 50:5-287. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
- Casevitz-Weulersse, J. 1990b. Étude systématique de la myrmécofaune corse (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) (Première partie). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Section A. Zoologie, Biologie et Écologie Animales (4)12:135-163.
- Casevitz-Weulersse, J.; Galkowski, C. 2009. Liste actualisée des fourmis de France (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 114:475-510. PDF
- Ceballos, G. 1956. Catálogo de los Himenópteros de España. Madrid: Instituto Español de Entomología, 554 pp.
- Finzi, B. 1926. Le forme europee del genere Myrmica Latr. Primo contributo. Bollettino della Società Adriatica di Scienze Naturali in Trieste 29:71-119. PDF
- Kiran, K.; Karaman, C. 2012. First annotated checklist of the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3548:1-38. PDF
- Lebas, C.; Galkowski, C.; Blatrix, R.; Wegnez, P. 2016. Guide Delachaux: Fourmis d’Europe occidentale. Luçon: Delachaux et Niestlé, 415 pp.
- Poldi, B.; Mei, M.; Rigato, F. 1995 ("1994"). Hymenoptera Formicidae. Checklist delle Specie della Fauna Italiana 102:1-10.
- 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.; 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. 1931a. Inventa entomologica itineris Hispanici et Maroccani, quod a. 1926 fecerunt Harald et Håkan Lindberg. Fourmis du Bassin Méditerranéen occidental et du Maroc récoltées par MM. Lindberg. Commentationes Biologicae 3(14):1-13.
- Santschi, F. 1931c. Notes sur le genre Myrmica (Latreille). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 38:335-355. 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
- Seifert, B. 2005. Rank elevation in two European ant species: Myrmica lobulicornis NYLANDER, 1857, stat. n. and Myrmica spinosior SANTSCHI , 1931, stat.n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten 7:1-7. PDF
- Seifert, B.; Csősz, S.; Schulz, A. 2014. NC-Clustering demonstrates heterospecificity of the cryptic ant species Temnothorax luteus (Forel, 1874) and T. racovitzai (Bondroit, 1918) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 64:47-57. 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