Myrmica specioides Bondroit, 1918

Lapeva-Gjonova, Albena, Antonova, Vera, Radchenko, Alexander G. & Atanasova, Maria, 2010, Catalogue of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Bulgaria, ZooKeys 62, pp. 1-124 : 8

Myrmica specioides Bondroit, 1918

Myrmica sancta Karawajew, 1926

Myrmica bessarabica : Atanassov and Dlusskij 1992, nec Nasonov, 1889

Records

(Map 13): Bulgaria ( Agosti and Collingwood 1987a); Sofia Basin: Sofia ( Antonova 2005, Antonova and Penev 2006, 2008), near Vladaya vill. ( Antonova and Penev 2008); Lyulin Mt. [ Atanassov and Dlusskij 1992 (as Myrmica bessarabica )]; Strandzha Mt.: Malko Tarnovo ( Seifert 1988a); Rila Mt.: Kostenets [ Atanassov and Vassileva 1976 and Hubenov et al. 1998 (as Myrmica sancta )]; Southern Black Sea coast: Sozopol ( Seifert 1988a).

Notes:

After examination of the “holotype” of Myrmica bessarabica Seifert (2002a) found that there is a discrepancy between Nasonov’s original description and the characteristics of this specimen, and proposed considering Myrmica bessarabica incertae sedis in the genus Myrmica , and revived the name Myrmica specioides from synonymy (see also Radchenko and Elmes 2004).