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Messor buettikeri
| Messor buettikeri | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Stenammini |
| Genus: | Messor |
| Species: | M. buettikeri |
| Binomial name | |
| Messor buettikeri Collingwood, 1985
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Identification
Collingwood and Agosti (1996) - HW 1.64; EL/HW 0.24-0.26. A smooth-sculptured, black, large-eyed species. A further character is the postpetiole which has the ventral surface flat without an anterior projection.
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 21.133333° to 21.133333°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Saudi Arabia (type locality).
Palaearctic Region: Iraq, Kuwait.
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
Check data from AntWeb
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.
- buettikeri. Messor buettikeri Collingwood, 1985: 249, fig. 22 (w.q.m.) SAUDI ARABIA.
- Type-material: holotype worker, paratype workers, paratype queens, paratype males (numbers not stated).
- Type-localities: holotype Saudi Arabia: Wadi Khumra, 10.ii.1978 (W. Büttiker); paratypes with same data, paratypes Saudi Arabia: Khashm Khafs, 25.i.1981 (W. Büttiker).
- Type-depository: NHMB (perhaps also in WMLC).
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 253; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 316; Borowiec, L. 2014: 103.
- Distribution: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia.
Description
References
- Abdul-Rassoul, M.S., Ali, H.B. & Augul, R.SH. 2013. New Records of Unidentified Ants worker (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) stored in Iraqi Natural History Museum with key to Species. Adv. Biores., Vol 4 (2): 27-33.
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Collingwood, C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arab. 7: 230-302 (page 249, Fig. 22 worker, queen, male described)
- Collingwood, C. A. and D. Agosti. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna Saudi Arabia. 15:300-385.
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Abdul-Rassoul M. S., H. B. Ali, and R. SH. Augul. 2013. New Records of Unidentified Ants worker (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) stored in Iraqi Natural History Museum with key to Species. Adv. Biores., Vol 4 (2): 27-33.
- Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Collingwood, C. A., and Donat Agosti. "Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (Part 2)." Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15 (1996): 300-385.