Leptothorax pithyusae

Leptothorax pithyusae
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Temnothorax unifasciatus)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Temnothorax
Species:	Leptothorax pithyusae Arnol'di, 1977

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Temnothorax unifasciatus.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• pithyusae. Leptothorax pithyusae Arnol'di, 1977a: 201 (w.q.) RUSSIA.
  • Type-material: holotype worker, 25 paratype workers, 4 paratype queens.
  • Type-locality: Russia: Caucasus, Krasnodar Krai, Gelendzhik, Dzhankhot, 8.vi.1956 (K.V. Arnol’di).
  • Type-depository: ZMUM.
  • [Note: Arnol’di, 1977a: 198, said that type-material was deposited in ZISP, but Radchenko, 1995c: 16, found it in ZMUM.]
  • Status as species: Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 542 (in key); Arakelian, 1994: 57.
  • Junior synonym of tauricus: Radchenko, 1994d: 157 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 243; Radchenko, 1995c: 16; Radchenko, 2016: 228.
  • Junior synonym of unifasciatus: Csosz et al., 2024: 11 (by implication, as tauricus junior synonym of unifasciatus).

References

• Arnol'di, K. V. 1977a. New and little known ant species of the genus Leptothorax Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the European USSR and the Caucasus. Entomol. Obozr. 56: 198-204.
• Csősz, S., Alicata, A., Báthori, F., Galkowski, C., Schifani, E., Yusupov, Z., Herczeg, G., Prebus, M.M. 2024. Integrative taxonomy reveals inflated biodiversity in the European Temnothorax unifasciatus complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zoologica Scripta 2024;00:1–17 (doi:10.1111/zsc.12690).