Solenopsis (Diplorhoptrum) fugax var. scytica Santschi, 1934 [type investigation]

Csosz, Sandor, Seifert, Bernhard, Laszlo, Mark, Yusupov, Zalimkhan M. & Herczeg, Gabor, 2023, Broadly sympatric occurrence of two thief ant species Solenopsis fugax (Latreille, 1798) and S. juliae (Arakelian, 1991) in the East European Pontic-Caspian region (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) is disclosed, ZooKeys 1187, pp. 189-222 : 189

Solenopsis (Diplorhoptrum) fugax var. scytica Santschi, 1934 [type investigation]

Notes.

This taxon was described from the Great Caucasus. Two syntype workers were investigated labelled " Solenopsis fugax . Latr. v. Solenopsis scythica Sant", "Alages Caucase, Mejunoff.", "ANTWEB CASENT 0913886"; depository NHM Basel. The placement of the worker type specimens within the S. fugax cluster has been shown in the analyses above.