Myrmica kryzhanovskii

Poorly known. It was found in nut forests and dry meadows at altitudes about 1500 m.

Identification
A member of the dshungarica group. Radchenko and Elmes (2010) - A member of the dshungarica complex of the rubra species group (Radchenko and Elmes 2001b). It differs from related species (Myrmica juglandeti, Myrmica ferganensis) by much longer semierect hairs of the scape and legs.

Key to Myrmica of the Middle Asian Mountains

Distribution
Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan.

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

Castes
This species is known only from workers. There was a printing error in Arnoldi's (1976) paper: the holotype is marked by a symbol (Queen) indicating a queen, whereas in fact it is a worker. (Radchenko and Elmes 2010)

Nomenclature

 *  kryzhanovskii. Myrmica kryzhanovskii Arnol'di, 1976a: 551, fig. 6 (w.q.m.) TAJIKISTAN. See also: Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 178.

Etymology
Radchenko and Elmes (2010) - this species was named after Prof. Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovski (1918-1997), a famous Russian entomologist and zoogeographer who worked at the Zoological Institute, St.-Petersburg.