Messor tadzhikorum
Messor tadzhikorum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Stenammini |
Genus: | Messor |
Species: | M. tadzhikorum |
Binomial name | |
Messor tadzhikorum Arnol'di, 1970 |
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Tajikistan (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.
- tadzhikorum. Messor rufitarsis subsp. tadzhikorum Arnol'di, 1970a: 79 (s.w.q.) TAJIKISTAN.
- Type-material: holotype worker, 1 paratype queen.
- Type-locality: Tajikistan: Romit (O. Kryzhanovsky); paratype with same data (V. Yanushev).
- Type-depository: ZMUM.
- Subspecies of rufitarsis Fabricius: Arnol’di, 1977b: 1644 (in key).
- Subspecies of structor: Bolton, 1995b: 257.
- Status as species: Steiner, Csösz, et al. 2018: supplementary material, 8.
- Distribution: Tajikistan.
Description
References
- Arnol'di, K. V. 1970a. New species and races of the ant genus Messor (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zool. Zh. 49: 72-88 (page 79, soldier, worker, queen described)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 257, Subspecies of structor)
- Steiner, F.M., Csősz, S., Markó, B., Gamisch, A., Rinnhofer, L., Folterbauer, C., Hammerle, S., Stauffer, C., Arthofer, W. & Schlick-Steiner, B.C. 2018. Turning one into five: Integrative taxonomy uncovers complex evolution of cryptic species in the harvester ant Messor “structor”. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 127: 387–404 (doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.005).