Myrmica rugulosa Nyl. var. minuta Karawajew, 1929b: 206

Martynov, Alexander V. & Radchenko, Alexander G., 2016, Karawajew’s ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the National Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Zootaxa 4097 (2), pp. 244-254 : 248-249

Myrmica rugulosa Nyl. var. minuta Karawajew, 1929b: 206 , w, m. Junior primary homonym of Myrmica minuta Say, 1836: 294 and Myrmica laevinodis var. minuta Ruzsky, 1905: 670 . Replacement name: Myrmica constricta Karawajew, 1934: 74 .

Current status: Myrmica constricta (see also Note below).

Type locality(-ies): “Umgegend von Kiew, jenseits des Dnjepr, Kiefernwald hinter der Nikolskaja Slobodka, 1.VIII.1919 (Nr. 2770), W. Karawajew, ww und einige mm aus dem Nest”.

Original Karawajew label(-s): “ Myrmica (Myrmica) / rugulosa var. slobo- / densis Karav. / Никольск. слоб. бл. / Киева. Караваев [= Nikolskaya Slobodka near Kiev Karawajew], 2770” (see also Fig. 5 ).

Material: SYNTYPES, 12 w (newly mounted, IN 314/6/2), 621 w (in alcohol, IN 314/ BAMS 1/Karaw52, 53).

Notes. The name M. rugulosa var. minuta Karawajew, 1929b was preoccupied and Karawajew (1934) proposed the replacement name M. rugulosa var. constricta . Simultaneously Arnoldi (1934) also gave the replacement name var. slobodensis for Karawajew’s var. minuta , referring it to “Karavajev 1932,” Most probably Arnoldi expected that a paper by Karawajew would be published in 1932 using this name because he had discussed the matter with Karawajew and in private correspondence (see Karawajew 1936: 274). Later Karawajew (1936) believed that Arnoldi’s name slobodensis had priority and used it instead constricta . However, Arnoldi’s (1934) name Myrmica rugulosa rugulosa var. slobodensis is unavailable (quadrinomen) and therefore the first available use of the name M. rugulosa var. slobodensis was made by Karawajew (1936). Consequently, the name M. rugulosa var. constricta Karawajew, 1934 has priority over slobodensis and the latter must be considered as an unnecessary proposed replacement name. Later Arnoldi considered var. slobodensis (= constricta ) to be a junior synonym of M. rugulosa ( Arnoldi 1970; see also Radchenko 1994), whereas Radchenko (2009) believed it to be a synonym of M. hellenica Finzi. Most recently, Seifert et al. (2009) showed that M. constricta is morphologically distinct from M. hellenica and can be considered as a good species (see also Radchenko & Elmes 2010).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 5. Examples of original vials and labels from the Karawajew’s ant collection: 1 — original vials; 2 – 5 — original labels of the type material.