Seven species new to science and one newly recorded species of the ant genus Myrmica Latreille, 1804 from China, with proposal of a new synonym (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Abstract

Seven new species of the genus Myrmica Latreille, 1804 are described from China: Myrmica dongi sp. n., Myrmica huaii sp. n., Myrmica liui sp. n., Myrmica mifui sp. n., Myrmica oui sp. n., Myrmica wangi sp. n. and Myrmica yani sp. n. Myrmica forcipata Karawaiew, 1931 is recorded from China for the first time, while Myrmica zhengi Ma & Xu, 2011 is synonymized with Myrmica luteola Kupyanskaya, 1990. Identification keys based on worker caste are provided to the Myrmica species of China and the pachei-group species of the Old World, respectively.

Socially-parasitic Myrmica species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Himalaya, with the description of a new species

“…Some of these species were placed originally in “satellite genera” that have since been synonymised with Myrmica ; for the taxonomic history of the other generic names see Bolton (1988) and Radchenko and Elmes (2003, 2010). As a result of synonymy only 15 of these names are currently recognized as valid species: eight species from Europe and Algeria, three from North America, two from Siberia and East Asia, and two from the Himalaya (see Radchenko and Elmes 2003, 2010, Francoeur 2007, Bharti 2012, Csösz 2012, Chen et al 2016). …”