Myrmica weberi
Elmes & Radchenko, 2009:
112, fig. 1 (w.q.)
NEPAL.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Nepal: Sankhawalava, Maghang, Kharka, Makalu Barun Conservation Area, 27°36’18.5’’N, 87°7’30’’E, 2634 m., 7.xi.2005, NPL28 (no. 11), CK-3 (Alpert, Alonso & Subedi). Primary type depository: NHMB.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 39 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen. Secondary type localities: 15 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen with same data as holotype, 7 paratype workers with same locality as holotype but 2548 m., 5.xi.2005, NPL25, MK21-283 (D. Emmett & Subedi), 6 paratype workers as last but 2563 m., 3.xi.2005, NPL31, NPL32, MK-4, MK-6 (G. Alpert), 7 paratype workers as last but 7.xi.2005, NPL33, MK W17, 1 worker India: Darjeeling Dist., Tiger Hill, 2000 m., 27.v.1975 (W. Wittmer), 1 paratype worker India: Kosi, Chauki, 2000-3000 m., 22-24.vi.2001, NHMB Nepal Expd., 1 paratype worker Bhutan, Nolding, 41 km. W Wangdi, 2800 m., 1972, NHMB Bhutan Expd., 1 paratype worker Nepal: Rigmo, 7.vi.1978, NPL2.1 (H. Tabata). Secondary type depositories: NHMB, OXUM, SIZK.
- Status as species: Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 321; Bharti et al., 2016: 41; Bharti et al., 2016: 971.
Citations
- Bharti, H.; Guénard, B.; Bharti, M.; Economo, E. P. 2016. An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 551:1-83. PDF
- Bharti, H.; Sasi, S.; Radchenko, A. 2016. Biogeography and ecology of Myrmica species in Himalayan regions. Sociobiology 63:956-975. 10.13102/sociobiology.v63i3.1145 PDF
- Elmes, G. W.; Radchenko, A. G. 2009. Two new Himalayan ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) related to Myrmica indica. Vestnik Zoologii 43 (2):107-119. 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