Monomorium ruzskyi

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Armenia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan.

Nomenclature

 * . Monomorium (Xeromyrmex) ruzskyi Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 218, fig. 1 (w.q.m.) TURKMENISTAN.
 * Type-material: holotype worker, paratype workers, paratype queens, paratype males.
 * Type-locality: holotype Turkmenistan: River Sumbar Basin, SW Kopetdag; paratypes with same data.
 * Type-depository: ZMUM.
 * Status as species: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 239; Arakelian, 1994: 47; Bolton, 1995b: 266; Paknia, et al. 2010: 33; Borowiec, L. 2014: 125; Bračko, 2019: 172.
 * Distribution. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
 * Dlussky G. M., O. S. Soyunov, and S. I. Zabelin. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp.
 * Kipyatkov V. E. 1993. Annual cycles of development in ants: diversity, evolution, regulation. In: Proceedings of the Colloquia on Social Insects, vol. 2, 2d Colloquium, Rybnoye, 1992. Socium, St. Petersburg, pp 25-48.
 * Kuznetsov G. T. 1990. Comparative analysis of Hymenoptera (Formicidae) population on altitudinal zones of central Kopetdag. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR. Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1990(3): 64-67.
 * Paknia, O., A. G. Radchenko, and M. Pfeiffer. "New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran." Asian Myrmecology 3, no. 29-38 (2010).