Contents Miscellaneous ants - Iran
SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Myrmica
Myrmica constricta Karavaiev

Myrmica constricta Karavaiev

return to listIran list {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Ukraine (Myrmica rugulosa, var. constricta Karawajew, n. nov., Karavaiev [Karawajew], 1934: 64 (in key); earlier Myrmica (Myrmica) rugulosa Nyl. var. minuta nov. Karawajew, 1929: 204; raised to species Seifert et al, 2009: 72) Kiev.


Myrmica constrictaKaravaiev's (1929) description is at {original description}. TL 3.0-3.5 mm.
Karavaiev's (1934) description, with illustration, is at {original description}.


{Myrmica constricta}The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0913076.

Radchenko & Elmes (2010: 724, in key, couplet 18) separate this from M. rugulosa (see below) by the presence of a weak ridge on the base of the scape of constricta and not on rugulosa.


Oxford University Museum specimens

Myrmica constricta
B Taylor det.
Iran
O Paknia
ZMGU 635
2006
Amole
36.4708333 N
52.3633333 E
.
3
{album}
Myrmica constricta
B Taylor det.
Iran
M Ghatei
55

16.v.2015
37.36°N
49.13°E
52 m
Masal, Guilan
hand collected
park, on ground
1500h
1
{album}

{Myrmica constricta}The photomontage is of workers from Iran, Ariole, collected by Omid Paknia, 2006.

TL ca 4.5, HW 0.88, HL 1.04, SL 0.88, EL 0.20, CI 85 SI 100

Weakly concave anterior margin of clypeus; scapes sinuous; frontal carinae long and weakly sinous, with about 16 fine longitudinal striae between the carinae, spaces between finely spiculate; propodeal spines long, very weakly downturned, about as long as the propodeal dorsum; petiole and postpetiole with quite strong lateral rugae but dorsally only very weakly sculptured. Base of scape with small lateral spine and longitudinal flange

Reminiscent of M. collingwoodi, That also has long scapes (SI 112) and a long head (CI 86); scapes straight.

This may be a debateable identification as Radchenko & Elmes (2010: 138 ff) gave the distribution as "Europe (absent from British Isles and Iberian Peninsula). Caucasus. All old records of the species east of Ural Mts. belong to M. gallienii". Myrmica gallienii, however, is bigger, TL 4.7-4.8, has HW 1.04 mm and SI 85.


{Myrmica constricta}The photomontage is of a workers from Iran, Masal, Guilan, collected by M Ghatei (55).

Myrmica rugulosa Nylander

{link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Finland (Nylander, 1849: 32)

Junior synonyms (Radchenko & Elmes, 2010)
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{Myrmica rugulosa}The photomontage of a worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0179921.

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