Bothriomyrmex kusnezovi, Emery, 1925

Radchenko, Alexander G., Fisher, Brian L., Esteves, Flavia A., Martynova, Ekateryna V., Bazhenova, Tatyana N. & Lasarenko, Svetlana N., 2024, Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 2. Dolichoderinae, Zootaxa 5432 (2), pp. 279-288 : 281

Bothriomyrmex kusnezovi Emery, 1925b: 12 , Fig. A 5, w.

Current status: Bothriomyrmex kusnezovi .

Type locality(-ies): “ Turkestan russe, prov. Syr-Daria, montagnes de Dauny Tau (N. Kuznezov leg.). Deux exemplaires endomagés, sauf la tête qui est en bon état”.

Original Karawajew labels: 1 w (damaged), “Дуаны-тау / Чимкент. у. / Н. КуЗнецов / 20.V.1923 ”, [Dauny-Tau, Chimkent. u. N. Kusnezov] “187. Coll. / Karavaievi”, “ Bothriomyrmex / kuznetzovi Em. / in litt. typus”, “ Paratypus / Bothriomyrmex / kusnetzovi Santschi”, “ B. kusnetzovi / Emery, non types / Duboviloff det”; 5 w on 2 pins (damaged), “Дуаны-тау / Чимкент. у. / Н. КуЗнецов / 20.V.1923 ”, “187. Coll. / Karavaievi”, “ Paratypus / Bothriomyrmex / kusnetzovi Santschi”, “ B. kusnetzovi / Emery, non types / Dubovikoff det”.

Material: SYNTYPES, 6 w (damaged) ( CASENT0917114 ) (Box 28).

Notes. Emery (1925b) described B. kusnezovi based on two workers collected by N. Kuznezov in the Dauny-tau mountains ( Kazakhstan). However, in Karawajew’s collection we found six more workers which undoubtedly belong to the nest series of B. kusnezovi (see label data above). This is confirmed by Karawajew’s original labels, where he denoted them as “ typus ”. Based on Recommendation 72B of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999), we conclude these specimens are part of the type series.