Messor platyceras rubella

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Messor platyceras rubella
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Messor platyceras)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Stenammini
Genus: Messor
Species: Messor platyceras rubella
Crawley, 1920

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

Nomenclature

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

  • rubella. Messor platyceras var. rubella Crawley, 1920a: 164 (s.w.m.) IRAN.
    • Junior synonym of clivorum: Emery, 1921b: 210 (footnote); Bolton, 1995b: 256 (error).
    • Junior synonym of structor: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 224; Radchenko, 2016: 171.
    • Junior synonym of platyceras: Khalili-Moghadam et al., 2019: 173.

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