Sifolinia pechi Samšiňák, 1956

Bezděčková, Klára, Bezděčka, Pavel, Macek, Ján & Malenovský, Igor, 2017, Catalogue of type specimens of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) deposited in Czech museums, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1), pp. 295-308 : 303

Sifolinia pechi Samšiňák, 1956

Sifolinia pechi Samšiňák, 1956: 144 (original description).

The holotype is deposited in SMOC (dry-mounted on two rectangular card labels):

HOLOTYPE (d ♀, left antenna mounted on a separate label): ‘ Sifolinia / sp.? [hw] // Boh.-Děčín / lgt. Samšiňák [p] -/- Janov / 20. 8. 55 [hw] // Holotypus / Sifolinia pechi / Samšiňák, 1956 (Bezděčková et al. 2017) [p, red label]’ [hw]’ [IN T1096].

Current status. Junior subjective synonym of Myrmica karavajevi (Arnol’di, 1930) according to RADCHENKO & ELMES (2010).

Remarks. The specimen was not originally labelled as a type in the collection, but from the original description it is clear that S. pechi was described based on a single dealate female found by Samšiňák at the locality and date which perfectly match the data on the specimen’s label. We thus consider it to represent the holotype.

A detailed taxonomic description of S. pechi was provided by SAMŠIŇÁK (1957a), however, its shorter version published earlier ( SAMŠIŇÁK 1956) has priority for nomenclature.