Myrmetaerus microcellatus Soudek, 1925

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 : 299

Myrmetaerus microcellatus Soudek, 1925

Myrmetaerus microcellatus Soudek, 1925b: 33 , Fig. 4 (original description).

Two syntypes are deposited in NMPC (both dry-mounted, glued on rectangular card labels):

SYNTYPE (1 d ♀): ‘Savina / Boka Kotorská // VII. 1923 // Myrmetaerus / microcellatus // Publ.: / Entomol. Record / XXXVII. 1925 – Pag.33 // Typus / ♀ // Lectotypus [p] ♀ / Myrmetaerus / microcellatus / Soudek, 1925 / Bouček det. 1963 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 25.479 [hw] // Syntypus / (Bezděčková et al. 2017) [p, red label]’;

SYNTYPE (1 ♀): ‘Savina / Boka Kotorská /, VII. 1923 // Myrmetaerus / microcellatus / Sdk. [hw] // Typus [hw] // Publ.: / „Entomol. Record“ / XXXVII. 1925 – Pag. 33. // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 25.480 [hw] // Syntypus / (Bezděčková et al. 2017) [p, red label]’.

Current status. Junior subjective synonym of Temnothorax gordiagini (Ruzsky, 1902) according to BOLTON (2016).

Remarks. One of the above cited specimens was labelled as a “ Lectotypus ”, but its designation has never been published, so we consider both specimens syntypes.