Temnothorax gordiagini

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Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Montenegro, Russian Federation.

Association with Other Organisms
This species is a slave-maker of the following species (Buschinger et al., 1984):

Nomenclature

 *  gordiagini. Myrmoxenus gordiagini Ruzsky, 1902b: 475, figs. A-H (1-8) (w.q.m.) RUSSIA. Combination in Epimyrma: Bolton, 1995b: 188; in Myrmoxenus: Schulz & Sanetra, 2002: 159; in Temnothorax: Ward et al., 2014: 15. Senior synonym of menozzii and provisional senior synonym of microcellatus: Buschinger, Winter & Faber, 1984: 336. See also: Kupyanskaya, 1990: 145.
 * menozzii. Myrmoxenus gordiagini subsp. menozzii Finzi, 1924b: 120 (q.m.) ITALY. Junior synonym of gordiagini: Buschinger, Winter & Faber, 1984: 336.
 * microcellatus. Myrmetaerus microcellatus Soudek, 1925a: 33, figs. 1-6 (w.q.) YUGOSLAVIA. [Also described as new by Soudek, 1925b: 14.] Provisional junior synonym of gordiagini: Buschinger, Winter & Faber, 1984: 336.

Type Material
Bezděčková et al. (2017) - Myrmetaerus microcellatus: Two syntypes are deposited in (both dry-mounted, glued on rectangular card labels):
 * SYNTYPE (1 dealate queen): ‘Savina / Boka Kotorská // VII. 1923 // Myrmetaerus / microcellatus // Publ.: / Entomol. Record / XXXVII. 1925 – Pag. 33 // Typus / queen // Lectotypus [p] queen / Myrmetaerus / microcellatus / Soudek, 1925 / Bouček det. 1963 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 25.479 [hw] // Syntypus / (Bezděčková et al. 2017) [p, red label]’;
 * SYNTYPE (1 worker): ‘Savina / Boka Kotorská /, VII. 1923 // Myrmetaerus / microcellatus / Sdk. [hw] // Typus [hw] // Publ.: / „Entomol. Record“ / XXXVII. 1925 – Pag. 33. // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 25.480 [hw] // Syntypus / (Bezděčková et al. 2017) [p, red label]’.

Remarks. One of the above cited specimens was labelled as a “Lectotypus”, but its designation has never been published, so we consider both specimens syntypes.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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 * Schulz, A., and M. Sanetra. "Notes on the socially parasitic ants of Turkey and the synonymy of Epimyrma (Hymenoptera: Formcidae)." Entomofauna, Zeitschrift für Entomologie 23 (14) (2002): 157-172.
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