Messor testaceus Bernard

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Messor testaceus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Stenammini
Genus: Messor
Species: M. testaceus
Binomial name
Messor testaceus
Bernard, 1980

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on type material

Syrian Arab Republic (type locality).

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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • testaceus. Messor testaceus Bernard, 1980: 266 (w.) SYRIA (attributed to André).
    • Type-material: holotype worker.
    • Type-locality: Syria: (no further data).
    • Type-depository: MNHN.
    • [Unresolved junior primary homonym of Messor testaceus Donisthorpe, 1950c: 68.]
    • Distribution: Syria.

Description

References

  • Bernard, F. 1980. Messor carthaginensis n.sp. de Tunis, et révision des Messor du groupe barbara. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 84: 265-269