Specimen: CASENT0911045 Lasius emarginatus    

Persistent Identifier:

https://www.antweb.org/specimen/CASENT0911045

Notes:

Observations by Bernhard Seifert on 24 May 2017:

In 1990, I investigated 6 specimens in MHN Geneva which carry a printed "Typus" label and as locality is given in Forel's handwriting "Crimée". The full text of description is: "L. brunneo-emarginatus, ou plutot emarginatus brunneoides. Formes de l'emarginatus plus claires et moins poilues, vivant sous l'écorce des arbres."

Forel  (1874) did nowhere state any collecting locality. As he explicitly wrote a book on the ants of Switzerland, we have to assume Switzerland as terra typica. Furthermore, it is most doubtful if Forel has seen so early specimens from the Crimea. He was very young and unknown when he finished the manuscript in 1873 and had no contacts with Emery and Karavajev (as possible donors of the material). According to Ivan Löbl (former curator in MHN Geneva) and the deceased NHM Basel curator Walter Wittmer, Forel's wife placed printed type labels to many specimens in the collection after Forel's death and maybe Forel himself has made this error in his later life. As the original handwritten label of Forel does not contain an indication of a type status, I conclude that these specimens cannot be considered as types. According to incomplete NUMOBAT data taken in 1990, there is a fair probability that they belong to Lasius illyricus Zimmermann 1935 but to make this sure I would have to repeat the investigation under the current standards.

Species Distribution Status: Native

Locality Information:

• Biogeographic Region:
• Palearctic

• Locality:
• [Crimeé] Crimea

• Country:
• Ukraine

• Adm1:
• Krym, Avtonomna Respublika

• Latitude:
• 0.0

• Longitude:
• 0.0

• Lat/Long Max Error:

• Elevation

• Elevation Max Error:

• Locality Notes:

Collection Information:

• Collection code:
• ANTC33313  

• Collected by:
•  

• Date collected:

• Date collected end:

• Habitat:
•  

• Method:

• Microhabitat:

• Collection notes:

Specimen Information:

• Life stage:
• 1 worker

• Located at:
• MHNG

• Owned by:
• MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland

• Determined by:

• Date determined:

• Type status:
• syntype of Lasius emarginatus brunneoemarginatus

• Medium:
• pin

• DNA notes:

• Specimen notes:
• Coll. Forel

• Specimen data uploaded by:
• California Academy of Sciences

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