Myrmica flavidula

Myrmica flavidula
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Solenopsis fugax)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Solenopsidini
Genus:	Solenopsis
Species:	Myrmica flavidula; Nylander, 1849

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Solenopsis fugax.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

flavidula. Myrmica flavidula Nylander, 1849: 43 (w.) RUSSIA (no state data).
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
- Type-locality: Russia: “Rossia meridionali”, River Don (Motschulski).
- Type-depository: ZMHF.
- Junior synonym of fugax: Mayr, 1855: 450; Smith, F. 1855b: 127; Nylander, 1856b: 99; Smith, F. 1858a: 282; Smith, F. 1858b: 122; Mayr, 1863: 453; Roger, 1863b: 32; Smith, F. 1871b: 4; Dours, 1873: 170; André, 1874: 204 (in list); Forel, 1874: 100 (in list); Emery & Forel, 1879: 464; Dalla Torre, 1893: 75; Ruzsky, 1905b: 507; Forel, 1915d: 37 (in key); Donisthorpe, 1915d: 102; Emery, 1922e: 202; Donisthorpe, 1927b: 110; Karavaiev, 1934: 122; Bolton, 1995b: 387; Radchenko, 2007: 33; Radchenko, 2016: 180; Csősz et al., 2023: 202.