Stenamma ucrainicum

Stenamma ucrainicum Arnol'di, 1928 junior synonym of current valid taxon Stenamma debile (Foerster, 1850)

Stenamma ucrainicum Arnol'di, 1928b: 209 (w.q.m.) UKRAINE. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of DuBois, 1998b: 233). Primary type locality: lectotype Ukraine: vic. Norddonetz Biologischen Station, 40 km. SE Kharkov, 1923, nos 1026, 1088, “etc.” (K.V. Arnol’di) Primary type depository: ZMUM Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paralectotype workers, paralectotype queens, paralectotype males (numbers not stated, but 26 specimens in total). Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: SIZK, ZMUM. Type notes: 1) Kostyuk, 1976: 95, cites 2 worker, 1 queen, 1 male syntypes in SIZK. 2) DuBois, 1998b: 233, does not specify the collection number of the lectotype.

Lectotype designation: DuBois, 1998b: 233.
Subspecies of Stenamma westwoodii: Karavaiev, 1934: 100 (redescription).
Status as species: Arnol'di, 1933a: 600 (in key); Arnol'di, 1975: 1826; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 536 (in key).
Junior synonym of Stenamma westwoodii: Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 103; Bolton, 1995b: 394.
Junior synonym of Stenamma debile: DuBois, 1998b: 231; Rigato, 2011: 7; Radchenko, 2016: 193; Borowiec & Salata, 2025a: 392.

Citations

Arnol'di, K. V. 1928b. Studien über die Systematik der Ameisen. II. Stenamma Westw. Zoologischer Anzeiger 75:199-215. PDF
Arnol'di, K. V. 1933a. Formicidae - ants. [In Russian.]. Pp. 594-605 in: Filip'ev, I. N.; Ogloblin, D. A. (eds.) 1933. Keys to insects. [In Russian.]. Moskva: Ogiz, viii + 820 pp.
Arnol'di, K. V. 1975. A review of the species of the genus Stenamma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR and description of new species. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 54:1819-1829. PDF
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.
Atanassov, N.; Dlussky, G. M. 1992. Fauna of Bulgaria. Hymenoptera, Formicidae. [In Bulgarian.]. Fauna na Bûlgariya 22:1-310.
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2025a. A monographic review of ants of Greece (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Vol. 2. Review of the subfamily Myrmicinae except the genera Temnothorax and Tetramorium. Part 1: text. Bytom: Natural History Monographs of the Upper Silesian Museum, 1-476. PDF
DuBois, M. B. 1998b. A revision of the ant genus Stenamma in the Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Sociobiology 32:193-403. PDF
Karavaiev, V. 1934. The fauna of the family Formicidae (ants) of the Ukraine. [In Ukrainian.]. Trudy Instytutu Zoolohii ta Biolohii Vseukrains'koi Akademii Nauk. Seriya 1. Pratsi z Systematyky ta Faunistyky 1934:1-164.
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.
Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.
Rigato, F. 2011. Contributions to the taxonomy of West European and North African Stenamma of the westwoodii species-group. (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 37:1-56. PDF