Proceratiinae, Emery, 1895

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 : 305-306

Subfamily Proceratiinae

Sysphincta fialai Kratochvíl, 1944

Sysphincta fialai Kratochvíl, 1944: 54, 86, Figs 1–4 (original description, key).

Altogether 14 syntypes are deposited in MMBC (all dry-mounted, glued on rectangular card labels, 1 a ♀ pinned):

SYNTYPE (1 a ♀): ‘Br H / 19 9 41 [hw] // Sysphincta / fialai / ♀ det Krat [hw] // Collectio / J. Šnoflák / Moravské museum, Brno [p] // Transcriptio [p] / Brno – Hády / 19. 9. 1941 / J. Šnoflák leg.[hw] // Syn- / typus [p, red label] // Invent. č. [p] / 1166 / Ent. [hw] / Mor. museum, Brno [p]’.

SYNTYPE (1 ♀): ‘Kroměříž / O. Fiala [p] // 30/8 36 [hw] / O. Fiala. [p] // Sysphincta / europaea [hw] // Collectio / J. Slavíček / Moravské museum, Brno [p] // Transcriptio [p] / Sysphincta [worker symbol] / fialai sp. n. / J. Kratochvíl det. 1944 [hw] // Syn- / typus [p, red label] // Invent. č. [p] / 1167 /Ent. [hw] / Mor. museum, Brno [p]’.

SYNTYPE (1 a ♀): ‘Transcriptio [p] / Kroměříž / 30. 8. 1936 / O. Fiala [hw] // Collectio / J. Slavíček / Moravské museum, Brno [p] // Transcriptio [p] / Sysphincta / europaea / O. Fiala det. // Transcriptio [p] / Sysphincta ♀ / fialai sp. n. / J. Kratochvíl det. 1944 [hw] // Syn- / typus [p, red label] // Invent. č. [p] / 1168 / Ent. [hw] / Mor. museum, Brno [p]’.

SYNTYPE (1 ♁): ‘Transcriptio [p] / Kroměříž / 30. 8. 1936 / O. Fiala [hw] // Collectio / J. Slavíček / Moravské museum, Brno [p] // Transcriptio [p] / Sysphincta / europaea / O. Fiala det. // Transcriptio [p] / Sysphincta ♁ / fialai sp. n. / J. Kratochvíl det. 1944 [hw] // Syn- / typus [p, red label] // Invent. č. [p] / 1169 / Ent. [hw] / Mor. museum, Brno [p]’.

SYNTYPES (2 ♀♀): ‘Kroměříž / O. Fiala [p] // Collectio / J. Slavíček / Moravské museum, Brno [p] // Sysphincta / europ. europ / For. [hw] // Transcriptio [p] / Sysphincta [worker symbol] / fialai sp. n. / J. Kratochvíl det. 1944 [hw] // Syn- / typus [p, red label] // Invent. č. [p] / 1170–1171 /Ent. [respectively, hw] / Mor. museum, Brno [p]’.

SYNTYPES (2♀♀ 2♁♁ 1 a ♀): ‘Transcriptio [p] / Kroměříž / O. Fiala [hw] // Collectio / J. Slavíček / Moravské museum, Brno [p] // Transcriptio [p] / Sysphincta / europaea europaea For. / O. Fiala det. // Transcriptio [p] / Sysphincta [worker symbol or ♁, respectively] / fialai sp. n. / J. Kratochvíl det. 1944 [hw] // Syn- / typus [p, red label] // Invent. č. [p] / 1172–1176 / Ent. [respectively, hw] / Mor. museum, Brno [p]’.

SYNTYPES (3 a ♀♀): ‘Transcriptio [p] / Kroměříž / O. Fiala [hw] // Collectio / J. Fiala / Moravské museum, Brno [p] // Transcriptio [p] / Sysphincta / europaea europaea For. / O. Fiala det. // Transcriptio [p] / Sysphincta ♀ / fialai sp. n. / J. Kratochvíl det. 1944 [hw] // Syn- / typus [p, red label] // Invent. č. [p] / 1177–1179 / Ent. [respectively, hw] / Mor. museum, Brno [p]’.

Five syntypes are deposited in MHJC (dry-mounted, damaged by mould):

SYNTYPES (1 ♁ 2 a ♀♀ 1 d ♀ 1♀; the male and the worker glued each on a small rectangular label, all females together on one small rectangular label, and all specimens together on one larger card label, ca. 40 × 16 mm): ‘Sysphincta / fialai Krat./ Paratypy [hw] -/- 04045 [hw] // Sysphincta / fialai Krat. / Kroměříž, leg. Fiala / Paratyp [hw] / Kroměříž / O. Fiala [p, on a sticker] // Syntypus / (Bezděčková et al. 2017) [p, red label]’, [IN: E26-T14–E26-T18].

Current status. Junior subjective synonym of Proceratium melinum (Roger, 1860) according to BOLTON (2016).

Remarks. As no specimen has been designated as a holotype or a lectotype, we consider all specimens syntypes, although the specimens from coll. V. Šilhavý deposited in MHJC were originally labelled as paratypes.