Proformica epinotalis
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927
valid
Proformica epinotalis
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927b:
27, figs. 2-4 (s.w.)
KYRGYZSTAN.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype major worker (by designation of Dlussky, 1969a: 228). Primary type locality: lectotype Kyrgyzstan: Suzak, NE slope Kara-tau Mts, 3.vii.1923 (N.N. Kuznetsov-Ugamsky). Primary type depository: ZISP.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paralectotype major and minor workers (numbers not stated). Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: SIZK, ZISP. Secondary type specimen: CASENT0917331.
Type notes:
1) Kostyuk, 1976: 104, cites 3 worker paralectotypes in SIZK. 2) Radchenko et al., 2025: 493, cite 1 syntype worker in SIZK.
- Lectotype designation: Dlussky, 1969a: 228.
- Dlussky, 1969a: 227 (q.m.); Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 206 (q.m.)
- Combination in Proformica (Proformica): Dlussky, 1969a: 226.
- [Combination in Formica: Kostyuk, 1976: 104 (error).]
- Status as species: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1928a: 17; Dlussky, 1969a: 226 (redescription); Tarbinsky, 1976: 175 (redescription); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 554 (in key); Dlussky, 1981b: 17; Dlussky et al., 1990: 141; Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 206; Radchenko, 1994b: 115 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 368; Dubovikoff, 2005b: 191 (in key); Schultz et al., 2006: 205; Borowiec et al., 2009: 379; Paknia et al., 2010: 34; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 532; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 38; Borowiec, 2014: 150; Radchenko, 2016: 322; Bračko, 2019: 172.
Citations
- Arnol'di, K. V.; Dlussky, G. M. 1978. Superfam. Formicoidea. 1. Fam. Formicidae - ants. [In Russian.]. Pp. 519-556 in: Medvedev, G. S. (ed.) 1978. Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. 3. Hymenoptera. Part 1. [In Russian.]. Opredeliteli Faune SSSR 119:3-584.
- 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
- Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2012. Ants of Greece – checklist, comments and new faunistic data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 23 (4):461-563. PDF
- Borowiec, M. L.; Borowiec, L.; Csősz, S.; Radchenko, A. 2009. Ants collected during 2006 Polish expedition to Kyrgyzstan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 20:367-379. PDF
- Bračko, G. 2019. New data on the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Azerbaijan. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 15 (1):165-175. 10.23885/181433262019151-165175 PDF
- Dlussky, G. M. 1969a. Ants of the genus Proformica Ruzs. of the USSR and contiguous countries (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 48:218-232. PDF
- Dlussky, G. M. 1981b. Desert ants. [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 230 pp. PDF
- Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S.; Zabelin, S. I. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. [In Russian.]. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp. PDF
- Dubovikoff, D. A. 2005b. А new species of the genus Proformica Ruzsky, 1902 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from North Ossetia and key to identification of Proformica species of the Caucasian Isthmus. [in Russian]. Kavkazskii Entomologicheskii Byulleten 1:189-191. PDF
- Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. PDF
- Kostyuk, Yu. A. 1976. Katalog typov murav’ev kollektsii V.A. Karavaeva khranyashiesya v Institute Zoologii Akademii Nauk Ukrainskoi SSR (chast’ 1). Sbornik Trudov Zoologicheskogo Muzeya (Kiev) 36:91-106.
- Kupyanskaya, A. N. 1990a. Ants of the Far Eastern USSR. [In Russian.]. Vladivostok: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 258 pp.
- Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1927b. Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Proformica Ruzsky. Societas Entomologica. Stuttgart 42:26-28. PDF
- Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1928a. Beiträge zur Ameisenfauna Mittelasiens. I. Die Gattung Proformica, Ruzsky 1903. Zoologischer Anzeiger 75:7-23. PDF
- Paknia, O.; Radchenko, A.; Pfeiffer, M. 2010. New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran. Asian Myrmecology 3:29-38. PDF
- Radchenko, A. G. 1994b. Identification table for the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of southern Siberia. [In Russian.]. Pp. 95-118 in: Kotenko, A. G. (ed.) 1994. Hymenopterous insects of Siberia and the Far East. [In Russian.]. Trudy Zapovednika "Daurskii" 3:1-147.
- Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.
- Radchenko, A. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Esteves, F. A.; Martynova, E. V.; Bazhenova, T. N.; Lasarenko, S. N. 2025. Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 3. Formicinae. Zootaxa 5613 (3):469-499. 10.11646/zootaxa.5613.3.3 PDF
- Schultz, R.; Radchenko, A.; Seifert, B. 2006. A critical checklist of the ants of Kyrgyzstan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8:201-207. PDF
- Tarbinsky, Y. S. 1976. The ants of Kirghizia. [In Russian.]. Frunze: Ilim, 217 pp. PDF
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