Myrmica rubra var. mutata Sadil, 1952

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 : 301

Myrmica rubra var. mutata Sadil, 1952

Myrmica rubra var. mutata Sadil, 1952: 242 , Fig. I (original description).

The holotype is deposited in NMPC (dry-mounted, glued on a rectangular card label):

HOLOTYPE (♀): ‘KOTELNÉ JÁMY / 15.–16.VI. Boh. / Dr. Obenberger [p] // Holotype [tw, red frame submarginally]

/ M. r. var. mutata [underlined] Sadil´51 // Mus. Nat. Pragae, Inv. [p] 3403 [hw]’.

Current status. Junior subjective synonym of Myrmica ruginodis Nylander, 1846 according to RADCHENKO & ELMES (2010).

Remarks. As clearly follows from the text of the original description, this taxon was described based on a single specimen: “Form ascertained by me unfortunately only in one specimen (worker) in the material of ants deposited in the collections of the National Museum in Prague, labelled Kotelné Jámy, Krkonoše 15-6-1926 Bohemia, Dr. Obenberger. I am well aware that to establish a new form on the basis of the deviating characters of one ♀ is a very problematical thing, especially in such a variable genus as the genus Myrmica Latr. ” ( SADIL 1952).