Myrmica moravica Soudek, 1922

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 : 300-301

Myrmica moravica Soudek, 1922

Myrmica moravica Soudek, 1922: 39 , 45, Figs 18, 21 (original description, key)

Altogether eight syntypes are deposited in MMBC (all dry-mounted, glued on rectangular card labels):

SYNTYPES (3 ♀♀): ‘ Moravia [p] // Typus [p, dark red label] // Transcriptio [p, underlined] / Moravia mer. / Pavlovské kopce / Kotelná 3. IV. 1921 / Št. Soudek leg. [hw] // Collectio / J. Slavíček / Moravské museum, Brno [p] // Transcriptio [p, underlined] / Myrmica [worker symbol] / moravica sp. n. / Št. Soudek det. [hw] // Syn- / typus [p, red label] // Invent. č. [p] / 1180–1182 [respectively] / Ent. [hw] / Mor. museum, Brno [p]’.

SYNTYPE (1 ♀): ‘Pavlovské kopce / 1921 Dr. Soudek [p, violet ink] // Type [p, dark red label, framed] // Transcriptio [p, underlined] / Moravia mer. / Pavlovské kopce / Kotelná 3. IV. 1921 / Št. Soudek leg. [hw] // Collectio / J. Slavíček / Moravské museum, Brno [p] // Transcriptio [p, underlined] / Myrmica [worker symbol] / moravica sp. n. / Št. Soudek det. [hw] // Syn- / typus [p, red label] // Invent. č. [p] / 1183 /Ent. [hw] / Mor. museum, Brno [p]’.

SYNTYPES (3 ♀♀): ‘Transcriptio [p, underlined] / Moravia mer. / Pavlovské kopce / Kotelná 3. IV. 1921 / Št. Soudek leg. [hw] // Collectio / J. Slavíček / Moravské museum, Brno [p] // Transcriptio [p, underlined] / Myrmica [worker symbol] / moravica sp. n. / Št. Soudek det. [hw] // Syn- / typus [p, red label] // Invent. č. [p] / 1184–1186 [respectively] /Ent. [hw] / Mor. museum, Brno [p]’.

SYNTYPE (1 ♀): ‘ Moravia [p] // Typus [p, dark red label] // Transcriptio [p, underlined] / Moravia mer. / Pavlovské kopce / Kotelná 3. IV. 1921 / Št. Soudek leg. [hw] // ex coll. expositio [hw] // Collectio / Moravské museum, / Brno [p] // Transcriptio [p, underlined] / Myrmica [worker symbol] / moravica sp. n. / Št. Soudek det. [hw] // Syn- / typus [p, red label] // Invent. č. [p] / 1188 /Ent. [hw] / Mor. museum, Brno [p]’.

Three syntypes are deposited in MHJC (all dry-mounted, damaged by mould):

SYNTYPES (3 ♀♀ each glued on a small rectangular label and all together on one larger card label, ca. 40 × 16 mm): ‘ Myrmica / deplanata / moravica Soudek [hw] // Myrmica / deplanata [worker symbol] / moravica Soudek / Pavlovské kopce, leg. Soudek / paratypy / 07085 [hw] // Syntypus / (Bezděčková et al. 2017) [p, red label]’ [IN: E26-T2–E26-T4].

Current status. Junior subjective synonym of Myrmica deplanata Emery, 1921 according to RADCHENKO & ELMES (2010).

Remarks. The description was originally prepared for publication in the journal Acta Musei Moraviensis, volume 20, which should have been published in 1922. However, this volume was released later, together with the subsequent one in a form of a double volume in 1923. The description in the monograph by SOUDEK (1922) has therefore priority, although it was provided only in Czech and was less detailed than in the paper published later in the journal ( SOUDEK 1923).

Neither SOUDEK (1922), nor SOUDEK (1923) specified the number of the type specimens and no specimen was designated as a holotype. Specimens preserved in MMBC are labelled as syntypes, three specimens from collection of V. Šilhavý stored nowadays in MHJC were labelled as paratypes. We consider all these specimens as syntypes. This is consistent with RADCHENKO & ELMES (2010) who treated additional specimens from the type series deposited in the collections of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale “Giacomo Doria”, Genoa, Italy also as syntypes.