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Genus: Myrmica   Latreille, 1804 

Classification:

Current Valid Name:



Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Extant: 187 valid species, 1 valid subspecies

Fossil: 7 valid species

Myrmica Latreille, 1804: 179 Type-species also by subsequent designation of Yarrow, 1955c PDF: 113. Type-species: Formica rubra, by subsequent designation of Latreille, 1810 PDF: 437. Type notes: The identity of Linnaeus’ material is discussed by Yarrow, 1955c PDF: 113. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Myrmica in Formicariae: Latreille, 1804: 179; Latreille, 1809 PDF: 130; Latreille, 1810 PDF: 312.
Myrmica in Formicarides: Leach, 1815: 147.
Myrmica in Poneridae, Myrmicidae: Smith, 1858a PDF: 114.
Myrmica in Myrmicidae: Smith, 1871b PDF: 324; Cresson, 1887 PDF: 260.
Myrmica in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1855 PDF: 396 [Myrmicidae]; Nylander, 1856b PDF: 77 [Myrmicineae]; Smith, 1857a PDF: 70 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1861 PDF: 62 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1865 PDF: 19 [Myrmicidae]; Dours, 1873 PDF: 167 [Myrmicidae]; Forel, 1874 PDF: 75 [Myrmicidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 460 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 108 [Myrmicinae]; Emery, 1896e PDF: 185 [Myrmicinae].
Myrmica as genus: all authors.
Myrmica as senior synonym of †Nothomyrmica: Radchenko et al., 2007 PDF: 1495.
[Note: in recent years Seifert (Seifert, 1994a PDF, Seifert, 1996b, Seifert, 2018) has made repeated attempts to resurrect Symbiomyrma, either as a subgenus of Myrmica, or as a separate genus. This is considered an unproductive exercise, and in this catalogue Symbiomyrma remains as a junior synonym, in accord with majority opinion.]
Genus Myrmica catalogues
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 431; Roger, 1863b PDF: 28; Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 460 (Europe); Cresson, 1887 PDF: 260 (U.S.A.); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 108; Emery, 1921c PDF: 36, 117 (Myrmica (Myrmica), Sifolinia); Emery, 1922c PDF: 117 (Sifolinia); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 124 (Asia); Smith, 1951c PDF: 789 (North America); Smith, 1979: 1347, 1351 (North America Myrmica, Paramyrmica); Bolton, 1995b: 277; Chen et al., 2016 10.3897/zookeys.551.6005 PDF: 88 (China checklist).
Genus Myrmica references
Mayr, 1855 PDF: 396, 397 (diagnosis, Austria species key); Smith, 1858a PDF: 114 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1861 PDF: 62 (diagnosis, Europe species key); Mayr, 1865 PDF: 19 (diagnosis); André, 1874b: 192 (Europe species key); Forel, 1874 PDF: 75 (Switzerland species key); André, 1883a: 315 (Europe & Algeria species key); Provancher, 1887: 246 (Canada species key); Nasonov, 1889: 71 (Russia species key); Lameere, 1892: 68 (Belgium species key); Forel, 1903a PDF: 696 (India species key); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 267 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Ruzsky, 1905b: 652 (Russian Empire species key); Wasmann, 1906 PDF: 15 (Luxemburg species key); Emery, 1908a PDF: 165 (Palaearctic species key); Bondroit, 1910 PDF: 493 (Belgium species key); Stitz, 1914 PDF: 70 (Central Europe species key); Donisthorpe, 1915f PDF: 110 (Britain species key); Emery, 1916a PDF: 121 (Italy species key); Wheeler, 1916r: 581 (U.S.A., Connecticut species key); Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 98 (France & Belgium species key); Emery, 1921c PDF: 36, 117 (Myrmica, Sifolinia diagnoses); Emery, 1922c PDF: 117 (Sifolinia diagnosis); Finzi, 1926 PDF: 77 (diagnosis, European species key); Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927e PDF: 190 (Turkestan species key); Karavaiev, 1927d: 258 (Ukraine species key); Donisthorpe, 1927c: 118 (Britain species key); Arnol'di, 1933a: 599 (Russia species key); Arnol'di, 1934 PDF: 151 (former European U.S.S.R. species, biometrics); Karavaiev, 1934: 63 (Ukraine species key); Menozzi, 1939a PDF: 293 (Himalaya & Tibet species key); Stitz, 1939: 74 (Germany species key); Kratochvíl, 1941b PDF: 75 (Central Europe species key); Novák & Sadil, 1941 PDF: 75 (Central Europe species key); Cole, 1942 PDF: 367 (U.S.A., Utah species key); Holgersen, 1943c PDF: 168 (Norway species key); Holgersen, 1944a PDF: 199 (Norway species key); Buren, 1944a PDF: 281 (U.S.A., Iowa species key); Van Boven, 1947b PDF: 175 (Belgium species key); Weber, 1947b PDF: 444 (North America species key); Creighton, 1950a PDF: 92 (Nearctic species key); Sadil, 1952 PDF: 264 (Czech Republic & Slovakia species key); Collingwood, 1958d PDF: 65 (Britain species key); Boven, 1959: 7 (Netherlands species key); Gregg, 1963: 290 (U.S.A., Colorado species key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1963: 96 (U.S.A., North Dakota species key); Collingwood, 1964b PDF: 101 (Britain species key); Bernard, 1967a PDF: 107 (diagnosis, Western Europe species key); Bernard, 1967a PDF: 156 (Sifolinia diagnosis); Boven, 1970b: 16 (Netherlands species key); Arnol'di, 1970b PDF: 1832 (former European U.S.S.R. species key); Kutter, 1973d PDF: 253 (morphology, satellite genera, Sifolinia, Sommimyrma, Symbiomyrma, key to first); Bolton & Collingwood, 1975: 5 (Britain species key); Arnol'di, 1976a PDF: 554 (central Asia & Kazakhstan species key); Tarbinsky, 1976 PDF: 20 (Kyrgyzstan species key); Van Boven, 1977 PDF: 94 (Belgium species key); Kutter, 1977c PDF: 43 (Switzerland species key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 530 (former European U.S.S.R. species key); Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 78 (Iberian Peninsula species key); Collingwood, 1979 PDF: 41 (Fennoscandia & Denmark species key); Francoeur, 1981c PDF: 755 (Myrmica lampra group); Allred, 1982: 440 (U.S.A., Utah species key); Gösswald, 1985: 294 (Germany species key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g PDF: 22 (U.S.A., Nevada species key); Kupyanskaya, 1986a PDF: 83 (Far Eastern Russia Messor lobicornis group key); Nilsson & Douwes, 1987: 62 (Norway species key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 267 (Balkans species key); Seifert, 1988b PDF: 43 (Europe, Asia Minor & Caucasus species key); Bolton, 1988a PDF: 3 (diagnosis, review of genus, venation); Dlussky et al., 1990 PDF: 181 (Turkmenistan species key); Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 92 (Far Eastern Russia species key); Ogata, 1991b PDF: 75 (diagnosis, Japan); Morisita et al., 1992: 8 (Japan species key); Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 80 (Bulgaria species key); Arakelian, 1994 PDF: 20 (Armenia species key); Radchenko, 1994b: 105 (South Siberia species key); Radchenko, 1994d PDF: 130 (Central & Eastern Palaearctic species key); Bolton, 1994: 106 (synoptic classification); Douwes, 1995: 86 (Sweden species key); Kupyanskaya, 1995: 337 (Far Eastern Russia species key); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1051 (census); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 91 (China species key); Seifert, 1996b: 140 (Central Europe species key); Skinner & Allen, 1996: 45 (Britain species key); Dlussky, 1997a PDF: 56 (Myrmica, †Nothomyrmica, in Baltic amber genera key); Radchenko et al., 1997: 481 (Poland species key); Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 12 (Portugal species key); Radchenko & Elmes, 1998 PDF: 3 (Myrmica ritae group key); Elmes & Radchenko, 1998 PDF: 218 (Taiwan species key); Wei et al., 2001 PDF: 561 (China species key); Radchenko & Elmes, 2001b PDF: 262 (Himalaya species key); Czechowski et al., 2002 PDF: 141 (Poland species key); Mackay & Mackay, 2002 PDF: 133 (U.S.A., New Mexico species key); Radchenko & Elmes, 2003a PDF: 239 (Palaearctic socially parasitic species key); Radchenko, 2005b PDF: 192 (North Korea species key); Radchenko et al., 2006 PDF: 43 (Vietnam species key); Radchenko et al., 2006 PDF: 531 (Palaearctic Myrmica schencki group key); Seifert, 2007: 131 (North and Central Europe species key); Francoeur, 2007 PDF: 156 (Myrmica punctiventris group key); Radchenko et al., 2007 PDF: 1497 (late Eocene amber species key); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 160 (Taiwan species key); Radchenko & Elmes, 2009a PDF: 85 (Myrmica pachei group key); Radchenko & Elmes, 2010 PDF: 713 (Palaearctic and Oriental, all species revision, keys); Jansen et al., 2010 PDF: 294 (phylogeny, divergence dating, biogeography); Eguchi et al., 2011 PDF: 21 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); Czechowski et al., 2012: 357 (Poland species key); Czekes et al., 2012 PDF: 41 (Romania species key); Yamane & Aibek, 2012 PDF: 182 (Mongolia species key); Bharti & Sharma, 2013 PDF: 139 (India Myrmica inezae group key); Chen et al., 2016 10.3897/zookeys.551.6005 PDF: 112 (China species key), 120 (Old World Myrmica pachei-group species key); Bharti et al., 2016 10.3897/zookeys.605.9087 PDF: 113 (socially-parasitic Himalayan species key); Radchenko, 2016: 113 (Ukraine species key); Cantone, 2017 PDF: 216 (brief male diagnosis); Jessen, 2020 10.1007/s12549-019-00406-2 PDF: 26 (fossil diagnosis).

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Myrmica sp. Urbana, Illinois, USA.
Image © Alex Wild. // Distribution

Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Africa: Algeria, Canary Islands, Morocco
    Americas: Brazil, Canada, Mexico, United States
    Asia: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Borneo, China, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, South Korea, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam
    Europe: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Channel Islands, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jersey, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Indomalaya, Nearctic, Neotropical, Palearctic
  Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records):
    Indomalaya, Nearctic, Neotropical, Palearctic

Comments:

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Myrmica   Eguchi, K., Viet, B. T. & Yamane, S., 2011, Generic synopsis of the Formicidae of Vietnam (Insecta: Hymenoptera), Part I - Myrmicinae and Pseudomyrmicinae., Zootaxa 2878, pp. 1-61: 21, (download) 21 23462
Myrmica   Smith, F., 1851, List of the specimens of British animals in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. - Hymenoptera Aculeata., London: British Museum, pp. -1--1: 5, (download) 5 8200
Myrmica   Jerdon, T. C., 1851, A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India., Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17, pp. 103-127: 113, (download) 113 4764
Myrmica   Förster, A., 1850, Hymenopterologische Studien. 1. Formicariae., Aachen: Unknown Publisher, pp. -1--1: 48, (download) 48 8138
Myrmica   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 15, (download) 15 21008
Myrmica   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 34-35, (download) 34-35 21008
Pheidole pallidula   Emery, C., 1915, Les Pheidole du groupe megacephala (Formicidae)., Revue de Zoologie Africaine 4, pp. 223-250: 226, (download) 226 3875
Myrmica   Nylander, W., 1846, Adnotationes in monographiam formicarum borealium Europae., Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 2, pp. 875-944: 925-926, (download) 925-926 4277
Myrmica   Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8, pp. 1-174: 40-48, (download) 40-48 6175
Myrmica   Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum, pp. -1--1: 114, (download) 114 8127
Myrmica   Jerdon, T. C., 1851, A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India., Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17, pp. 103-127: 104, (download) 104 4764
Myrmica   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: -1, (download) -1 21008


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