Solenopsis deserticola

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

Nomenclature

 * . Solenopsis deserticola Ruzsky, 1905b: 515 (q.m.) UZBEKISTAN.
 * Type-material: lectotype queen (by designation of Dlussky & Radchenko, 1994: 108), 3 paralectotype males.
 * Type-locality: lectotype Uzbekistan: Samarkand oblast, Khodzhent county, Golodnya steppe, 10.iv.1903 (Z.M.Ak.N.: Yakobson); paralectotypes with same data.
 * Type-depository: ZISP.
 * Dlussky & Radchenko, 1994: 109 (w.).
 * Status as species: Emery, 1909a: 32; Emery, 1922e: 201; Ruzsky, 1923: 3; Ettershank, 1966: 140; Dlussky, 1981a: 17; Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 222; Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 241; Arakelian, 1994: 49; Dlussky & Radchenko, 1994: 108 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 387; Borowiec, L. 2014: 153.
 * Senior synonym of oblongior: Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 222; Arakelian, 1994: 49; Dlussky & Radchenko, 1994: 108; Bolton, 1995b: 387.
 * Distribution: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
 * oblongior. Solenopsis orbula subsp. oblongior Karavaiev, 1926c: 161, fig. 1 (w.m.) AZERBAIJAN.
 * Type-material: syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated).
 * Type-locality: Azerbaijan: Tekle-dagh Mt range, nr Adshikabul (= Hajigabul?), Dschawad Distr., 3.iv.1907 (Schmidt & Shelkovnikov).
 * Type-depository: SIZK.
 * Subspecies of orbula: Ettershank, 1966: 142.
 * Junior synonym of deserticola: Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 222; Arakelian, 1994: 49; Dlussky & Radchenko, 1994: 108; Bolton, 1995b: 389.
 * oculata. Solenopsis orbula var. oculata Karavaiev, 1926c: 162, fig. 2 (w.) AZERBAIJAN.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “several”).
 * Type-locality: Azerbaijan: Shamakhi Distr., Kubali-bashirbek, 19.v.1907 (Kaznakov & Shelkovnikov).
 * Type-depository: SIZK.
 * [Junior primary homonym of Solenopsis (Diplorhoptrum) angulata st. oculatus Santschi, 1925e: 161.]
 * Subspecies of orbula: Santschi, 1934e: 574.
 * Replacement name: Solenopsis (Diplorhoptrum) orbula var. ilinei Santschi, 1936c: 202.

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.
 * Dubovikoff D. A., and Z. M. Yusupov. 2018. Family Formicidae - Ants. In Belokobylskij S. A. and A. S. Lelej: Annotated catalogue of the Hymenoptera of Russia. Proceedingss of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 6: 197-210.
 * Karavaiev V. 1926. Beiträge zur Ameisenfauna des Kaukasus, nebst einigen Bemerkungen über andere palaearktische Formen. (Fortsetzung). Konowia 5: 161-169.
 * Mokrousov M. V., and V.A. Zryanin. 2015. Materials on the early spring wasps and ants fauna of Uzbekistan (Hymenoptera: Vespomorpha: Chrysidoidea, Scolioidea, Pompiloidea, Vespoidea, Apoidea [Spheciformes], Formicoidea). Entomological research Russia and its neighboring regions 5: 36–48.