Oligomyrmex afghanus Pisarski, 1970

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 : 302-303

publication ID	AD012714-7AA5-4B40-912D-369957E7DD01
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10542124
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B70710-FFBC-6971-F281-758426A38A67
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Oligomyrmex afghanus Pisarski, 1970
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Oligomyrmex afghanus Pisarski, 1970 View in CoL

Oligomyrmex afghanus Pisarski, 1970: 311 View in CoL , Figs 10–23 (original description).

Holotype and 55 paratypes are deposited in MMBC (all dry-mounted, glued on point and rectangular card labels):

HOLOTYPE (♀, on card point label): ‘O. Afghanistan / Prov. Nengrahar / Povolný & Tenora [p] // (26) 12–20 km öös. / Jalalabad / 7. 3. 66 600 m [p] // Oligomyrmex / afghanus Pisarski / det. B. Pisarski [p] // Invent. č. [p]/ 563 / Ent [hw] / Mor. museum, Brno [p] // Holo- / typ [p, red label]’.

PARATYPES (52♁♁ 3♀♀): ‘O. Afghanistan / Prov. Nengrahar / Povolný & Tenora [p] // (26) 12–20 km öös. / Jalalabad / 7. 3. 66 600 m [p] // Oligomyrmex / afghanus Pisarski / det. B. Pisarski [p] // Para- / typ [p, red label] // Invent. č. [p] / 564–566/Ent [respectively, hw] / Mor. museum, Brno [p]’.

Current status. Valid as Carebara afghana ( Pisarski, 1970) (see BOLTON 2016).

Remarks. According to the original description, the holotype and 54 paratypes should have been deposited in MMBC (with the rest of the type series, 27 paratypes, to be deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw). Fifty-five paratype specimens are actually present in MMBC.