Messor minor denticulatus

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Messor minor denticulatus
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Messor laboriosus)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Stenammini
Genus: Messor
Species: Messor minor denticulatus
Santschi, 1927

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Messor laboriosus.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • denticulatus. Messor minor st. denticulatus Santschi, 1927d: 247 (w.) KYRGYZSTAN, TURKMENISTAN (date of publication 10.xi.1927).
    • [First available use of Messor barbarus subsp. meridionalis var. denticulatus Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927a: 90 (in key) (w.) KYRGYZSTAN, TURKMENISTAN (date of publication (30).iv.1927); unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
    • Subspecies of barbarus: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 18.
    • Synonym of laboriosus: Santschi, 1927d: 247; Arnol’di, 1977b: 1641 (in key); Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 220.
    • [Note: Santschi, Arnol’di, and Dlussky, et al. all give denticulatus as senior synonym, but laboriosus has priority.]
    • Status as species: Tarbinsky, 1976: 61 (redescription); Arnol'di, 1977b: 1641 (in key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 537 (in key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 271 (in key); Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 219; Bolton, 1995b: 253; Legakis, 2011: 10; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 513.
    • Material of the unavailable name glabriusculus referred here by Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 220.

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