Myrmica tenuispina
Ruzsky, 1905
valid
Myrmica laevinodis var. tenuispina
Ruzsky, 1905b:
670 (w.)
UZBEKISTAN.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Radchenko & Elmes, 2001b: 258). Primary type locality: lectotype Uzbekistan: E Bukhara, Tabi-dara-Zagyrdesht, 17.vi.1897 (Kaznakov). Primary type depository: ZMUM.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 6 paralectotype workers. Secondary type localities: 5 paralectotype workers with same data as lectotype, 1 paralectotype worker China: Tash-Kurgan, Darvaz, 22.viii.1897 (Kaznakov). Secondary type depositories: MHNG, ZISP, ZMUM.
Type notes:
Forel lists original syntypes as follows: 6 workers Uzbekistan: Ferghana (fl. Kugart, 6-8000’), 5.viii.1895 (Korzinski), 2 workers E Bukhara (Kara tegin, Kala-i-Choit), 21.vii. (no collector’s name, probably Kaznakov), 15 workers Tabi-dara-Zagyrdesht, 17.vi.1897 (Kaznakov), and 18 workers China: Tash-Kurgan, Darvas, 22.viii.1897 (Kaznakov).
- Lectotype designation: Radchenko & Elmes, 2001b: 258.
- [First available use of Myrmica rubra laevinodis tenuispina ; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
- Arnol'di, 1976a: 552 (m.); Radchenko & Elmes, 2002: 35 (q.)
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific name): Emery, 1908a: 170; Emery, 1921c: 39; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927e: 193.
- Subspecies of Myrmica laevinodis: Weber, 1947b: 455 (redescription).
- Status as species: Arnol'di, 1976a: 551; Tarbinsky, 1976: 25 (redescription); Dlussky et al., 1990: 184; Radchenko, 1994d: 142 (in key); Radchenko, 1994f: 81; Bolton, 1995b: 284; Radchenko & Elmes, 2001b: 258; Radchenko & Elmes, 2002: 35; Schultz et al., 2006: 203; Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 303; Bharti et al., 2016: 970; Seifert et al., 2018: 96.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
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