Solenopsis provincialis

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Solenopsis provincialis Bernard, 1950 junior synonym of current valid taxon Solenopsis fugax (Latreille, 1798)

Solenopsis provincialis Bernard, 1950a: 12 (w.) FRANCE. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 7 syntype workers. Primary type locality: France: Var, Boulouris, nr Saint Raphael, v.1941 (F. Bernard). Primary type depository: MNHN. Type notes: Bernard says other syntypes are stored in alcohol. Galkowski et al., 2010: 160, record only 1 worker, “of which only a fragment of the gaster remains”.

Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 143; Bernard, 1967a: 179 (redescription); Bernard, 1978a: 574 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 390; Borowiec, 2014: 158 (error).
Junior synonym of Solenopsis fugax: Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 493; Galkowski et al., 2010: 162; Radchenko, 2016: 180.

Citations

Bernard, F. 1950a ("1946"). Notes sur les fourmis de France. II. Peuplement des montagnes méridionales. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 115:1-36. PDF
Bernard, F. 1967a ("1968"). Faune de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen. 3. Les fourmis (Hymenoptera Formicidae) d'Europe occidentale et septentrionale. Paris: Masson, 411 pp. PDF
Bernard, F. 1978a ("1977"). Révision des Diplorhoptrum de France, fourmis plus différenciées par l'écologie que par leurs formes (Hym. Formicidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (n.s.)13:543-577.
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
Casevitz-Weulersse, J.; Galkowski, C. 2009. Liste actualisée des fourmis de France (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 114:475-510. PDF
Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
Galkowski, C.; Casevitz-Weulersse, J.; Cagniant, H. 2010. Redescription de Solenopsis fugax (Latreille, 1798) et notes sur les Solenopsis de France (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Série) 32 (3-4):151-163. PDF
Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.

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