Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 1. Dorylinae, Poneromorpha and Pseudomyrmecinae
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Radchenko, Alexander G.
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Fisher, Brian L.
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Esteves, Flavia A.
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Martynova, Ekateryna V.
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Bazhenova, Tatyana N.
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Lasarenko, Svetlana N.
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-02-16
5244
1
1
32
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5244.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5244.1.1
1175-5326
7645729
84162B77-9717-4870-AE75-136C4CCC5890
Notes to
Diacamma
Mayr, 1862
One day in the early 1960s, some of the old boxes with the Karawajew’s ant collection (including box with
Diacamma
species
) were flooded by water that dripped from the roof when snow melted. As a result, some of the labels were blurred and some of the ants peeled away and fell off the cardboard triangles. In the 1970s G. M. Dlussky tried to restore this material based on data from Karawajew’s publications; he stuck ants back to triangles, pinned original labels back on, and added an additional label reading “Dlussky restaur.”. In some cases Dlussky may have attached some specimens or labels incorrectly, making it impossible to be absolutely certain that specimens are
types
of a particular species (particularly, restored by Dlussky).