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Messor mediosanguineus
| Messor mediosanguineus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Stenammini |
| Genus: | Messor |
| Species group: | instabilis |
| Species complex: | wasmanni |
| Species: | M. mediosanguineus |
| Binomial name | |
| Messor mediosanguineus Donisthorpe, 1946 | |
Identification
Khalili-Moghadam et al. (2019) - Messor barbarus is distributed in the western part of the Mediterranean Basin east to Italy. It has long and dense, erect setae on the first gastral tergite and usually a red head (but some specimens have the head partly or completely black, or the whole body black) and a regularly rounded propodeum, whereas M. mediosanguineus has the head black, the mesosoma mostly reddish, the propodeum with two obtuse denticles and the first gastral tergite with only a few short, erect setae. Messor laboriosus differs from M. mediosanguineus in the more setose first gastral tergite and the reddish-brown head (black in M. mediosanguineus) and the yellowish to yellowish-brown legs (mostly black in M. mediosanguineus).
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 37.066667° to 37.066667°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Iran, Türkiye.
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Countries Occupied
| Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species. |
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Estimated Abundance
| Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species. |
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Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- mediosanguineus. Messor barbarus subsp. mediosanguineus Donisthorpe, 1946a: 53 (s.w.) TURKEY.
- Type-material: holotype worker, 20 paratype workers.
- Type-locality: holotype Turkey: (no further data) (Kosswig); paratypes with same data.
- Type-depository: BMNH.
- Subspecies of barbarus: Donisthorpe, 1950e: 1060; Bolton, 1995b: 255; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 19.
- Status as species: Borowiec, L. 2014: 109; Khalili-Moghadam, et al. 2019: 173.
- Distribution: Iran, Turkey.
Type Material
Salata & Borowiec (2019): paratype (w.): Paratype | barbarus | ssp. mediosanguineus | 1946 Donisthorpe || No. 224 || ANTWEB | CASENT0900484 || BMNH | 1013841 (BMNH).
Taxonomic Notes
Khalili-Moghadam et al. (2019) - This is the first certain record of M. mediosanguineus from Iran. A previous record of Messor denticulatus SANTSCHI, 1927 (now a junior synonym of Messor laboriosus SANTSCHI, 1927) from western Iran (PASHAEI RAD et al. 2018) probably concerns M. mediosanguineus. Messor laboriosus is a species with a more easterly distribution, widespread in Central Asia, and only the records from NE Iran are reliable. M. mediosanguineus is a more westerly species hitherto known only from Turkey. After studying the paratype preserved in the Museum of Natural History, London (available on AntWeb, specimen no. CASENT0900484), we concluded that it is a good species, not a subspecies of Messor barbarus (LINNAEUS, 1767). Messor mediosanguineus belongs to the complex of species close to Messor semirufus (ANDRÉ, 1883), very speciose and diverse in the Middle East, and requiring revision owing to the number of infraspecific names available in the nomenclature.
Borowiec (2014) suggests this taxon is likely a synonym of Messor wasmanni.
Description
References
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Donisthorpe, H. 1946c. A new subspecies of Messor Forel, and a new variety of Aphaenogaster Mayr (Hym. Formicidae) from Turkey. Proc. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. Ser. B 15: 53-54 (page 53, soldier, worker described)
- Khalini-Moghadam, A., Borowiec, L., Nemati, A. 2019. New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari Province of Iran with taxonomic comments. Polish Journal of Entomology 88: 163–182 (DOI 10.2478/pjen-2019-0013).
- Kiran, K., Karaman, C. 2020. Additions to the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoosystema 42(18), 285-329 (doi:10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a18).
- Salata, S., Borowiec, L. 2019. Preliminary contributions toward a revision of Greek Messor Forel, 1890 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 43:52-67 (doi:10.3906/zoo-1809-41).
- Salata, S., Lapeva-Gjonova, A., Georgiadis, C., Borowiec, L. 2023. Review of the Messor semirufus complex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Greece. ZooKeys 1185, 105–142 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1185.111484).