Myrmica tobiasi

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Myrmica tobiasi
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Myrmica salina)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Myrmicini
Genus: Myrmica
Species: Myrmica tobiasi
Radchenko & Elmes, 2004

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

Nomenclature

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

  • tobiasi. Myrmica tobiasi Radchenko & Elmes, 2004: 224, figs. 1-17 (w.q.m.) KAZAKHSTAN. Junior synonym of salina: Seifert, 2011: 183. See also: Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 307.


References

  • Radchenko, A.G.; Elmes, G.W. 2004. Taxonomic notes on the scabrinodis-group of Myrmica species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) living in eastern Europe and western Asia, with a description of a new species from Tien Shan. Trudy Russkogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva 75(1): 222-233 (page 224, figs. 1-6, 7-12, 13-17; worker, queen, male described)
  • Seifert, B. 2011. A taxonomic revision of the Eurasian Myrmica salina species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Soil Organisms 83: 169-186.