Cardiocondyla bogdanovi Ruzsky 1905

Seifert, Bernhard, 2023, A revision of the Palaearctic species of the ant genus Cardiocondyla Emery 1869 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Zootaxa 5274 (1), pp. 1-64 : 47

Cardiocondyla bogdanovi Ruzsky 1905 [description and topotypical specimen]

This taxon has been described from Armenia (now Turkey) in a sample collected by K.A.Satunin: “Erivansk. Gub., Aralych, about 3000 feet, worker, gyne 7.IX.1900 “. Type specimens were not detectable in the collections of ZMLU Moskva and ZM St. Petersburg. Investigated was one worker from the type locality labelled “Caucasus Aralich Horváth 1893 \ Cardiocondyla bogdanovi Ruzsk. det. B.Pisarski \ Inst.Zool.P.A.N. Warszawa 92/60 \ topotype”, ZIPAS Warszawa. This specimen is not a type but a candidate for neotype fixation. Seifert (2003) presented a comprehensive, data-based argumentation why Ruzsky’s unusually detailed description indicates a synonymy with C. stambuloffii and that the unjustified neotype fixation for C. bogdanovi published by Radchenko (1995) was performed in C. sahlbergi (sample No 465 in SI1 and SI2). A synonymy of C. bogdanovi with C. koshewnikovi is rather unlikely by zoogeography and Ruzsky’s statement “postpetiole more than twice as wide as petiole” also favors a synonymy with stambuloffii .