| Authorship |
Salata et al., 2024:
30, figs. 23-25, 63
|
| Forms |
w. |
| Bioregion |
Palearctic |
| Locality |
CYPRUS |
| Etymology |
Named after mythological Hippomenes [Greek Ιππομένης] who received from Aphrodite three golden apples (according to Ovid from her sacred apple-tree in Tamasus, Cyprus). With these golden apples he distracted Atalanti, won her in a race and married her.We chose the name because of the uniformly yellow color of specimens, without sculpture, resembling a golden, smooth object, like an apple. |
| Primary type information |
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Cyprus: Paphos, Cedar Valley loc. 1, 34.98837, 32.67748, 1067 m, 22.iv.2022 (L. Borowiec). Primary type depository: MNHW. |
| Secondary type information |
Secondary type material: 8 paratype workers. Secondary type localities: 1 paratype worker with same data as holotype; 1 paratype worker Cyprus: Paphos, Agios Neofytou Mon., 34.84602, 32.44784, 424 m, 29.iv.2022 (L. Borowiec); 5 paratype worker Cyprus: Paphos, Evretou Dam, 34.96168, 32.47749, 171 m, 21.iv.2022 (S. Salata); 1 paratype worker Cyprus: Paphos, rd. F612 ad Ag. Konstantinos, 361 m, 34.73397, 32.64312, 28.iv.2022 (S. Salata). Secondary type depository: MNHW. |
