Myrmica slovaca Sadil, 1952

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 : 302

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Myrmica slovaca Sadil, 1952: 259 , Figs VI, VIII–XI (original description, key).

Altogether 11 syntypes are deposited in NMPC (all dry-mounted, glued on rectangular card labels):

SYNTYPES (4 ♀♀ glued on two labels (3 + 1) on one pin): ‘Chorovce / 1.6.48 / Slovakia / Novák [hw] // M. slovaca / Sadil (det. 1951) [hw] // Mus. Nat. Pragae Inv [p] / 3066 [hw]’.

SYNTYPES (7 ♀♀ glued on one label with transversal yellow line and number 3108, hw): ‘Slov. Dol. Almáš / 1938, Záleský lg. [p] // Det. Dr. Záleský [p] / M. scabr. [worker symbol] / scabrin. [hw] // M. slovaca / Sadil (det. 1951) [hw] // Mus. Nat. Pragae Inv [p] / 3068 [hw]’.

Current status. Junior subjective synonym of Myrmica curvithorax Bondroit, 1920 (see RADCHENKO & ELMES 2010, SEIFERT 2011, BOLTON 2016). Because of the widespread use of M. slovaca and doubts about the origin of the holotype specimen of M. curvithorax, RADCHENKO & ELMES (2010: 281–282) stated that they would apply to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature with the proposition to suppress the name M. curvithorax and consider M. slovaca the valid name (based on Articles 23.9.1.1, 23.9.1.2 and 23.9.2 of ICZN 1999). However, this application has not been done yet.