Myrmica balcanica 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 : 300

Myrmica balcanica Sadil, 1952

Myrmica balcanica Sadil, 1952: 253 , Figs V, VIII–X (original description, key).

Altogether 13 syntypes are deposited in NMPC (all dry-mounted, glued on rectangular card labels):

SYNTYPES (8 ♀♀, on the same label on one pin): ‘Hradiště / u Litoměřic / 19. 6. 48 / Sadil [hw] // 854 [hw] // M. balcanica [underlined] Sad. / Sadil det. 1951 [hw] // Mus. Nat. Pragae, Inv. [p] / 3043 [hw]’.

SYNTYPES (2 ♀♀ on two labels on one pin) ‘ Myrmica / rugulosa [hw] // 26. VII. 38 / Petrovo Selo / CHORVATSKO / l. V. Novák [hw] // COTYPE [p, red label] // M. balcanica [underlined] Sad. / Sadil det. 1951 [hw] // Mus. Nat. Pragae, Inv. [p] 3405 [hw] // Myrmica [p] / puerilis Stke [hw] / Det. С A. Collingwood [p]’.

SYNTYPES (2 ♀♀ on the same label): ‘Ljulin pl. / Bulg. VI. 35 / lgt. Dr. Táborský [p] // COTYPE [p, red label] // M. balcanica [underlined] Sad. / Sadil det. 1951 [hw] // Mus. Nat. Pragae, Inv. [p] 3406 [hw] // Mus. Nat. Pragae, Inv. [p] 3058 [hw] // Myrmica [p] / puerilis Stke [hw] / Det. С A. Collingwood [p]’.

SYNTYPE (1 ♀): ‘Pilis u Slov. Nov. / 27. 7. 36 Mesta / Hoffer [hw] // Det. Dr. Záleský [p] M. scabr: rugulosoid. [hw] // COTYPE [p, red label] // M. balcanica [underlined] Sad. / Sadil det. 1951 [hw] // Mus. Nat. Pragae, Inv. [p] 3409 [hw] // Myrmica [p] / puerilis Stke [hw] / Det. С A. Collingwood [p]’.

Current status. Junior subjective synonym of Myrmica specioides Bondroit, 1918 according to RADCHENKO & ELMES (2010).

Remarks. In the original description ( SADIL 1952), the date of collection for the series of workers from Hradiště u Litoměřic is reported as 13.vi.1948. We think this is an error caused by a wrong transcription of the label data during the original manuscript preparation and consider these specimens syntypes.