Messor diabarensis
Messor diabarensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Stenammini |
Genus: | Messor |
Species: | M. diabarensis |
Binomial name | |
Messor diabarensis Arnol'di, 1970 |
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan (type locality).
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. |
Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- diabarensis. Messor diabarensis Arnol'di, 1970a: 75, fig. 2(1,2) (s.q.m.) AZERBAIJAN.
- Type-material: holotype worker.
- Type-locality: Azerbaijan: Éveri, vii.1936, no. 7013 (K. Arnol’di).
- Type-depository: ZMUM.
- [Messor structor subsp. diabarensis Arnol'di, 1948: 211 (in list). Nomen nudum.]
- Status as species: Arnol’di, 1977b: 1643 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 253.
- Distribution: Azerbaijan.
Description
References
- Arnol'di, K. V. 1948a. Ants of Talysh and the Diabar depression. Their importance for the characterization of communities of terrestrial invertebrates and for historical analysis of the fauna. Tr. Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 7(2 2: 206-262 (page 211, Messor structor subsp. diabarensis; nomen nudum)
- Arnol'di, K. V. 1970a. New species and races of the ant genus Messor (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zool. Zh. 49: 72-88 (page 75, Fig. 2 soldier, queen, male described)
- Snegovaya, N., Shigayev, C. 2021. A checklist of the ants (Insecta, Formicidae) of Azerbaijan Republic. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 17(2): 179-207 (doi:10.22067/ijab.2022.67343.1000).