Contents Miscellaneous ants - Iran
SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Myrmica
Myrmica gallienii Bondroit

Myrmica gallienii Bondroit

return to listIran list {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location France (Bondroit, 1920a: 150, illustrated, worker) Haute-Marne, Latrecy, Le Francois - no images on Antweb (August 2014).
junior synonyms - from Radchenko & Elmes (2010: 138)
limanica (Myrmica (Myrmica) rugulosa limanica, K Arnoldi (in litt.), Karavaiev, 1934, 75, illustrated, worker & male) Russia or Ukraine (also, p. 77, variety chersonensis Arnoldi, in litt., Ukraine) - see below
jacobsoni (Myrmica jacobsoni nov. spec., Kutter, 1963: 133, illustrated, all forms) Latvia -  see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0907622
obensis (Arnol'di, 1970: 1840, worker & male) Russia - no images on Antweb (August 2014).
bergi (of Sadil, 1952; 244, misidentification)


{Myrmica gallienii} Bondriot's (1920a) description is at {original description}.

Kutter. 1963. Miscellanea myrmecologica. 1. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 36: 129-137.

Radchenko & Elmes (2010: 138 ff) gave the distribution as "Central & Eastern Europe, southern Finland, Caucasus, West Siberia (but not China)".


{Myrmica gallienii}The photomontage of a syntype worker of limanica is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0900287.


Oxford University Museum specimens

Myrmica gallienii
B Taylor det.
Iran
S Moradloo
03
2.vii.2012
36.61°N
48.03°E
Gogje Ghiaye Markasi
1852 m 27°C
Village

1
{album}
Myrmica gallienii
B Taylor det.
Iran
E Aram
29
20.vi.2012
37.15°N
48.25°E
Nemahil
700 m
hand collected
village farm
2
{album}
Myrmica gallienii
B Taylor det.
Queen
Iran
E Aram
31a
11.vii.2012
37.15°N
48.25°E
Nemahil
700 m
hand collected
forest on tree
1
{album}
Myrmica gallienii
B Taylor det.
Iran
R Afshari
56
15.vii.2014
31.20°N
51.72°E
2301 m
Hana (Hannah), Semirom, Isfahan
hand collected, park, under tree
1130h
1
{album}
Myrmica gallienii
B Taylor det.
Iran
R Afshari
68
15.v.2014
31.44°N
51.03°E
2341 m
Sadegh Abad, Semirom, Isfahan
hand collected
rock on mountain
1500h
1
{album}
Myrmica gallienii
B Taylor det.
Iran
F Borjali
29
28.iv.2014
37°16035 N
49°35142 E
01 m
Rasht
hand collected
city, on ground
1600h
1
{album}
Myrmica gallienii
B Taylor det.
Iran
F Borjali
41
5.ix.2014
37°16035 N
49°35142 E
01 m
Rasht
hand collected
city, on ground
0800h; queen

{album}

{Myrmica gallienii Moradloo 03}The photomontage is of a worker from Iran, S Moradloo (03)

TL ca 5,5 mm, HL 1.3, HW 1.1, SL 0.95, AL 1.63, CI 87, SI 90. Petiole node profile with arcuate posterior face; propodeal spines straight, in dorsal view apices further apart than the bases.


{Myrmica gallienii}The photomontage is of a large worker from Iran, E Aram (29)


{Myrmica gallienii}The photomontage is of a small worker from Iran, E Aram (29)


{Myrmica gallienii queen}The photomontage is of a queen from Iran, Nemahil, collector E Aram (31a).

See a similarly dark queen at http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0172722

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