Temnothorax balchashensis

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Temnothorax balchashensis (Arnol'di, 1971) junior synonym of current valid taxon Temnothorax melleus (Forel, 1904)

Leptothorax balchashensis Arnol'di, 1971: 1822, fig. 2(1-4) (w.q.m.) KAZAKHSTAN. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Kazakhstan: 40 km. E Sayak, E Balkhash, 20.vii.1962 (L. Arnol’di). Type-depository: ZMUN. Secondary type information: Paratype-material: 12 paratype workers, 4 paratype queens, 4 paratype males. Paratype-locality: same as for holotype. Paratype-depository: ZMUN.

Status as species: Dlussky, 1981b: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 236.
Junior synonym of Temnothorax melleus: Radchenko, 1995a: 26

Obsolete combinations

Leptothorax balchashensis

Citations

Arnol'di, K. V. 1971. New species and a review of the ant genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Kazakstan plain. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 50:1818-1826. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dlussky, G. M. 1981b. Desert ants. [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 230 pp. PDF
Radchenko, A. G. 1995a ("1994"). A review of the ant genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the central and eastern Palearctic. Communication 1. Subdivision into groups. Groups acervorum and bulgaricus. [In Russian.]. Vestnik Zoologii 1994(6):22-28.

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