Nylanderia sindbadi

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Iraq, Israel.

Nomenclature

 *  sindbadi. Paratrechina sindbadi Pisarski, 1960: 349, figs. 1-3, 11-13 (q.m.) IRAQ. Combination in Nylanderia: LaPolla, Brady & Shattuck, 2010a: 127.

Type Material
Bezděčková et al. (2017) - Four syntypes are deposited in (all dry-mounted, glued on point card labels):
 * SYNTYPE (1 alate queen): ‘Baghdad Iraq / Dr. Kálalová [p] // Paratrechina / sindbadi / n. sp. / B. Pisarski [hw] // Allotypus [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 3312 [hw] // Syntypus / (Bezděčková et al. 2017) [p, red label]’.
 * SYNTYPE (1 male): ‘Baghdad Iraq / Dr. Kálalová [p] // prep. 242 [hw] // Paratrechina / sindbadi / n. sp. / B. Pisarski [hw] // Paratypus [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 3313 [hw] // Syntypus / (Bezděčková et al. 2017) [p, red label]’.
 * SYNTYPE (1 male): ‘Baghdad Iraq / Dr. Kálalová [p] // Paratrechina / sindbadi / n. sp. / B. Pisarski [hw] // Paratypus [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 3314 [hw] // Syntypus / (Bezděčková et al. 2017) [p, red label]’.
 * SYNTYPE (1 male): ‘Baghdad Iraq / Dr. Kálalová [p] // Paratrechina / sindbadi / n. sp. / det. B. Pisarski [hw] // Paratypus [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 3315 [hw] // Syntypus / (Bezděčková et al. 2017) [p, red label]’.

Remarks. In the original description, PISARSKI (1960) listed five males and one female from ‘Bagdad (Irak), leg. Dr. Kálalová’ as the type series and specified that three males and the female of this series were deposited in NMPC, and two males at the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. As he did not designate any holotype in his paper, we consider all these specimens syntypes (cf. ICZN 1999: Art. 73.1.3. and 73.2.).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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 * Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
 * Pisarski B. 1960. Dwa nowe gatunki z rodzaju Paratrechina Motschulsky (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Ann. Zool. (Warsaw) 18: 349-356.
 * Pisarski B. 1964. Fauna Mrowek Afganistanu. Bibliogr. k. 160-166, Nieoprawiony maszynopis pracy, Praca doktorska. Instytut Zoologiczny PAN, 1964, Bibliogr. p. 160-166
 * Pisarski B. 1967. Fourmis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) d'Afghanistan récoltées par M. Dr. K. Lindberg. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 24: 375-425.
 * Vonshak M., and A. Ionescu-Hirsch. 2009. A checklist of the ants of Israel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 39: 33-55.