Myrmica tschekanovskii

Nothing is known about the biology of .

Identification
M. tschekanovskii is characterized by the 12-segmented antennae of its males. Based on this feature, Radchenko (1994a) placed it to the arnoldii species group (= former subgenus Dodecamyrmica). However, M. tschekanovskii males have a relatively long scape (SI1 > 0.70), while males of Myrmica arnoldii have short scape (SI 1 < 0.40) and under our more recent approach to the species group concept in genus Myrmica, species with such large differences in the male morphology probably do not belong to the same group. Thus the taxonomic position of M. tscheknovskii is somewhat uncertain, perhaps, it should typify its own separate species group. (Radchenko and Elmes 2010)

Key to Myrmica of species of East Siberia, Russian Far East, Mongolia, Korean Peninsula, northern China, and Japan

Distribution
East Siberia

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

Castes
Queens have not been collected.

Nomenclature

 *  tschekanovskii. Myrmica tschekanovskii Radchenko, 1994h: 215, figs. 33-39 (w.m.) RUSSIA. See also: Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 310.

Etymology
Radchenko and Elmes (2010) - this species was named for the collector, the Russian (originally Polish) geographer and naturalist Dr. Alexander Lavrentievich Czekanowski (alternative spelling Tschekanovski) (1833-1876).