Messor abdelazizi

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Messor abdelazizi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Stenammini
Genus: Messor
Species: M. abdelazizi
Binomial name
Messor abdelazizi
Santschi, 1921

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Specimen Labels

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 34.066667° to 30.866667°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Morocco (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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.
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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.

  • abdelazizi. Messor barbarus st. abdelazizi Santschi, 1921d: 70 (s.) MOROCCO.
    • Type-material: holotype worker.
    • Type-locality: Morocco: Marrakech road (H. Vaucher).
    • Type-depository: NHMB.
    • Santschi, 1931a: 4 (w.q.); Cagniant & Espadaler, 1998: 423 (m.).
    • Subspecies of barbarus: Santschi, 1923a: 134.
    • Subspecies of structor: Santschi, 1923f: 320; Santschi, 1929e: 142; Santschi, 1936c: 200.
    • Status as species: Santschi, 1931a: 4; Cagniant, 1964: 87; Bolton, 1995b: 252; Cagniant & Espadaler, 1998: 423; Cagniant, 2006a: 197; Borowiec, L. 2014: 101; Barech, et al. 2020: 17.
    • Distribution: Algeria, Morocco.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
  • Cagniant, H. 2006. Liste actualisée des fourmis du Maroc. Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8: 193-200.
  • Cagniant, H., and X. Espadaler. "Le genre Messor au Maroc." Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (N.S.) 33 (4) (1998): 419-434.
  • Cagniant, H.. "Contribution à la connaissance des fourmis marocaines. Description des trois castes d'Aphaenogaster torossiani n. sp. et notes biologiques (Hym. Formicoidea Myrmicidae)." Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 92 (1988): 241-250.
  • Cagniant, H.. "Contribution à la connaissance des fourmis marocaines: Chalepoxenus brunneus n. sp. (Hymenoptera, Myrmicidae)." Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (n.s.)2 (1985): 141-146.
  • Cagniant, H.. "Liste actualisee des fourmis du Maroc (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8 (2006): 193-200.
  • Cagniant, H.. "Étude de quelques fourmis marocaines. Statistique provisoire des Formicidae du Maroc." Bulletin de la Société d' Histoire naturelle de l' Afrique du Nord 53 (1964): 83-118.
  • Santschi, F.. "Fourmis du Maroc, d'Algérie et de Tunisie." Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Bruxelles) 69 (1929): 138-165.
  • Santschi, F.. "Inventa entomologica itineris Hispanici et Maroccani, quod a. 1926 fecerunt Harald et Håkan Lindberg. Fourmis du Bassin Méditerranéen occidental et du Maroc récoltées par MM. Lindberg." Societas Scientiarum Fennica (Helsingfors) 3 (14) (1931): 1-13.
  • Taheri A., J. Reyes-Lopez, and N. Bennas. 2014. Contribution a l'etude de la fauna myrmecologique du parc national de Talassemtane (nord du Maroc): biodiversite, biogeographie et especes indicatrices. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa (S.E.A.), 54: 225–236.