Temnothorax elderensis

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Temnothorax elderensis (Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985) junior synonym of current valid taxon Temnothorax tesquorum (Arnol'di, 1977)

Leptothorax elderensis Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 225, fig. 3 (w.) TURKMENISTAN. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Turkmenistan: Kopetdag, Eldere gorge, vic. Kara-Kala, 6.v.1981 (G.M. Dlussky). Primary type depository: ZMUM. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 7 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: 4 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 3 paratype workers Kopetdag, Aidere gorge, 14.vi.1981 (S.I. Zabelin). Secondary type depository: ZMUM. Secondary type specimen: CASENT0917450.

Status as species: Dlussky et al., 1990: 190.
Junior synonym of Temnothorax tesquorum: Radchenko, 1994e: 150 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 238; Radchenko, 1996c: 18.

Obsolete combinations

Leptothorax elderensis

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S.; Zabelin, S. I. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. [In Russian.]. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp. PDF
Dlussky, G. M.; Zabelin, S. I. 1985. Ant fauna (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the River Sumbar Basin (south-west Kopetdag). [In Russian.]. Pp. 208-246 in: Nechaevaya, N. T. (ed.) 1985. The vegetation and animal world of western Kopetdag. [In Russian.]. Ashkhabad: Ylym, 278 pp. PDF
Radchenko, A. G. 1994e. Identification table for ants of the genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from central and eastern Palearctic. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 73(7-8):146-158. PDF
Radchenko, A. G. 1996c. A review of the ant genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of central and eastern Palearctic. Communication 4. Group congruus. Species of uncertain position. Zoogeographical characteristics. [In Russian.]. Vestnik Zoologii 1996(1/2):16-22. PDF

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