Myrmica kirghisorum

M. kasczenkoi is an hemixerophilous species, inhabiting dry and light pine forests and steppes where it nests in the soil, often under stones. Nuptial flights are from August-September. (Radchenko and Elmes 2010)

Identification
Radchenko and Elmes (2010) - A member of the lobicornis species group. It is most similar to Myrmica pisarskii by the shape and sculpture of its alitrunk and waist, but differs by the base of the scape having a less angled curve without a vertical lobe or dent.

Key to Myrmica of the Middle Asian Mountains

Distribution
Altai Mts., South Siberia, Mongolia.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russian Federation, Tajikistan.

Nomenclature

 * foreliella. Myrmica lobicornis subsp. foreliella Arnol'di, 1976a: 553 (w.) TAJIKISTAN. Junior synonym of kirghisorum: Radchenko. 1994g: 87.
 *  kirghisorum. Myrmica lobicornis subsp. kirghisorum Arnol'di, 1976a: 553 (w.m.) KYRGYZSTAN. Tarbinsky, 1976: 33 (q.). Raised to species: Radchenko, 1994a: 43 (misspelled as kirgisorum); Radchenko, 1994c: 142 (in key). Senior synonym of foreliella: Radchenko, 1994g: 87. See also: Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 167.

Etymology
Radchenko and Elmes (2010) - M. kasczenkoi: this species was dedicated to the collector, the well-known Ukrainian zoologist, one of the founders of the Zoological Museum of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Kiev), Dr. of medicine and Dr. of zoology, Prof. Nikolai Feofanovich Kasczenko (1855-1935).