Strongylognathus kratochvili Šilhavý, 1937

Bezděčková, Klára, Bezděčka, Pavel, Macek, Ján & Malenovský, Igor, 2017, Catalogue of type specimens of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) deposited in Czech museums, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1), pp. 295-308 : 304

Strongylognathus kratochvili Šilhavý, 1937

Strongylognathus kratochvíli [sic!] Šilhavý, 1937: 5, Figs 1–6 (original description).

Holotype and four paratypes are deposited in MHJC (all dry-mounted, glued on rectangular card labels).

HOLOTYPE (♀, enclosed in a small glass vial (35 × 8 mm) stored inside a larger glass vial (50 × 20 mm) marked lengthwise by red tape): ‘ Strongylognathus kratochvili Šilh. / Holotypus [worker symbol] – Mohelno [hw] // Strongylognathus / kratochvili Šilhavý [hw] / Holotypus [worker symbol] / 11141 [hw] -/- ČSSR / Mohelno – hadcová step / 21. III. 1936 / V. Šilhavý leg. et det. [hw] ’ [IN: E26-T5].

PARATYPES (1 a ♀ 1 d ♀, each glued on a small rectangular label and all together on one larger card label ca. 40 × 16 mm): ‘ Strongylognathus / Kratochvili Šilh. / Typ ♀ [hw] -/- 0339 [hw] // Strongylognathus ♀ / Kratochvili Šilh. / Mohelno 31. 3. 1936 [hw]’, [IN: E26-T6, E26-T7].

PARATYPES (2 ♀♀, each glued on a small rectangular label and all together on one larger card label ca. 40 × 16 mm): ‘ Strongylognathus / Kratochvili Šilh. / Paratypy [hw]’, [IN: E26-T8, E26-T9].

Current status. Valid as Strongylognathus kratochvili Šilhavý, 1937 ( BOLTON 2016).

Remarks. In the Czech part of the original description, ŠILHAVÝ (1937: 7) stated that he collected a few specimens of workers of S. kratochvili on 31 March 1936. However, in the French summary (p. 10), he indicated 21 March 1936 as the collecting date which also corresponds to the date on the label of the holotype. The female paratypes were collected, according to the original description (p. 7), in June 1936, which differs from 31. 3. 1936 on their label. These discrepancies probably arose as a result of mistake during labelling of the female paratypes.

One additional worker labelled as a paratype is stored in MHJC which is not considered to be a part of the type series due to year of the collection being after the description of the species (1945).