Formica kupyanskayae Bolton 1995

• Main Author: Seifert, Bernhard
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Formicidae; Formica; Formica kupyanskayae; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4725632; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/F52B87F65E28615EFF5EDCDFFEFB1D58

Formica kupyanskayae BOLTON, 1995 Formica kupyanskayae BOLTON, 1995 [type investigation] Replacement name for Formica opacus KUPYANSKAYA, 1980 that is a junior primary homonym of F. opaca NY- LANDER, 1856 (now in Camponotus MAYR, 1861). Type material. Five paratype workers and two paratype gynes from the holotype sample labelled “ Primorye, Anisimovka, 12.7.1975 Kupyanskaya ”, “Paratypus Formica opaca Kupyanskaya ”; depository SMN Görlitz. All material examined. Numeric phenotypical data were recorded in 10 nest samples with 41 workers and two gynes plus one isolated gyne. All these originated from Russian Far East. For details, see SI1, SI2, and SI3. Geographic range. Known are 10 sites in the Ussuri River / Sichote Alin region and one site in Sakhalin. These eleven sites are situated at altitudes of only 180 ± 150 [40, 530] m which is clearly lower than in sympatric Formica ussuriensis sp.n. (ANOVA F 1,19 30.6, p <0.001). Diagnosis of worker (Tab. 2, key). Large, mean and maximum CS over all social types 1745 and 2068 µm. Scape rather long but less slender than in Formica pratensis , SL / CS 1750 0.917, SL / Smax 1750 9.78. Petiole width medium, PeW / CS 1750 0.476. Setae on eyes long, EyeHL 1750 35µm; setae on dorsal plane of scape absent or very few, nSc 1750 0.68; setae on head margin behind eyes less numerous than in F. pratensis but rather long, nCH 1750 5.8, OccHL 1750 118 µm; gular setae always present and long, nGu 1750 7.0, GuHL 1750 217µm; pronotal setae moderately numerous and rather long, nPn 1750 18.9, mPnHL 1750 98µm, number of mesopleural, propodeal, and metanotal setae clearly smaller than in F. pratensis but of comparable length, nMes 1750 6.6, nPr 1750 9.0; mMet 1750 3.4, Methl 1750 198 µm. Pigmentation without specific characters. Diagnosis of gyne (Tab. 6, Fig. 13). In many characters similar to Formica pratensis . Very large, mean and maximum CS 2348 and 2386 µm. Scape very long and slender, SL / CS 0.903, SL / Smax 9.66, absolute scape length> 2090 µm, exceeding data in other ...