Protonym: Myrmica rugulosa var. minuta
Authorship Karavaiev, 1929d: 204
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality UKRAINE
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Ukraine: vic. Kiev, Nikolskaya Slobodka, pine forest beyond the Dnieper, 1.viii.1919, no. 2770 (W. Karawajew). Primary type depositories: NMAS, SIZK, ZMUM. Primary type specimens: CASENT0916881, CASENT0916882 (m.).
Type notes 1) Radchenko, 2009: 70, cites 71 workers, 2 queens, 9 males in SIZK (queens are not mentioned in the original description). 2) Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 113, cite 71 worker, 9 male syntypes in SIZK, 1 worker in ZMUM. 3) Martynov & Radchenko, 2016: 248, cite 12 worker syntypes in NMAS (plus 621 workers in alcohol). 4) Radchenko et al. 2025 note that according to the redescription of this form by Karavaiev, 1934: 74, when he proposed the replacement name Myrmica constricta, queens with the collection number 2770 also belong to the type series.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Myrmica rugulosa minuta Subspecies Homonym
homonym replaced by Myrmica constricta Karavaiev, 1934
Original combination