Myrmica sancta
Myrmica bessarabica
Catalogue of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Bulgaria
Lapeva-Gjonova, Albena
Antonova, Vera
Radchenko, Alexander G.
Atanasova, Maria
ZooKeys
2010
62
1
124
Bondroit, 1918
Bondroit
1918
Insecta
Formicidae
Myrmica
CoL
Animalia
Myrmica specioides
Hymenoptera
7
8
Arthropoda
species
specioides
Myrmica sanctaKarawajew, 1926 Myrmica bessarabica: Atanassov and Dlusskij 1992, nec Nasonov, 1889
Records (Map 13): Bulgaria ( Agosti and Collingwood 1987a); Sofia Basin: Sofia ( Antonova 2005, Antonova and Penev 2006, 2008), near Vladaya vill. ( Antonova and Penev 2008); Lyulin Mt. [ Atanassov and Dlusskij 1992(as Myrmica bessarabica)]; Strandzha Mt.: Malko Tarnovo ( Seifert 1988a); Rila Mt.: Kostenets [ Atanassov and Vassileva 1976and Hubenov et al. 1998(as Myrmica sancta)]; Southern Black Sea coast: Sozopol ( Seifert 1988a).
Notes: After examination of the "holotype"of Myrmica bessarabica Seifert (2002a)found that there is a discrepancy between Nasonov'soriginal description and the characteristics of this specimen, and proposed considering Myrmica bessarabicaincertae sedis in the genus Myrmica, and revived the name Myrmica specioidesfrom synonymy (see also Radchenko and Elmes 2004).