Catalogue of type specimens of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) deposited in Czech museums Author Bezděčková, Klára ) &) &) Department of Natural History, Museum of the Highlands Jihlava, Masarykovo náměstí 55, CZ- 586 01 Jihlava, Czech Republic; e-mails: bezdeckova @ muzeum. ji. cz; bezdecka @ muzeum. ji. cz Author Bezděčka, Pavel ) &) &) Department of Natural History, Museum of the Highlands Jihlava, Masarykovo náměstí 55, CZ- 586 01 Jihlava, Czech Republic; e-mails: bezdeckova @ muzeum. ji. cz; bezdecka @ muzeum. ji. cz Author Macek, Ján ) &) Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ- 193 00 Praha 9 - Horní Počernice, Czech Republic; e-mail: jan _ macek @ nm. cz Author Malenovský, Igor 3,4) &) Department of Entomology, Moravian Museum, Hviezdoslavova 29 a, CZ- 627 00 Brno, Czech Republic; e-mail: imalenovsky @ mzm. cz & 3,4) &) Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, CZ- 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic; e-mail: malenovsky @ sci. muni. cz text Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 2017 2017-06-30 57 1 295 308 journal article 0374-1036 AD012714-7AA5-4B40-912D-369957E7DD01 Myrmica rubra var. mutata Sadil, 1952 Myrmica rubra var. mutata Sadil, 1952: 242 , Fig. I (original description). The holotype is deposited in NMPC (dry-mounted, glued on a rectangular card label): HOLOTYPE ( ♀ ): ‘KOTELNÉ JÁMY / 15.–16.VI. Boh. / Dr. Obenberger [p] // Holotype [tw, red frame submarginally] / M. r. var. mutata [underlined] Sadil´51 // Mus. Nat. Pragae, Inv. [p] 3403 [hw]’. Current status. Junior subjective synonym of Myrmica ruginodis Nylander, 1846 according to RADCHENKO & ELMES (2010) . Remarks. As clearly follows from the text of the original description, this taxon was described based on a single specimen: “Form ascertained by me unfortunately only in one specimen (worker) in the material of ants deposited in the collections of the National Museum in Prague , labelled Kotelné Jámy, Krkonoše 15-6-1926 Bohemia , Dr. Obenberger. I am well aware that to establish a new form on the basis of the deviating characters of one ♀ is a very problematical thing, especially in such a variable genus as the genus Myrmica Latr. ” ( SADIL 1952 ).