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Messor antennatus fodorii
| Messor antennatus fodorii | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Stenammini |
| Genus: | Messor |
| Species: | M. antennatus |
| Subspecies: | M. antennatus fodorii |
| Trinomial name | |
| Messor antennatus fodorii Röszler, 1942 | |
Borowiec (2014) notes that this subspecies, described from Greece (Chios Island), is without doubt not conspecific with Messor antennatus, which is known only from northern Africa.
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Greece (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. |
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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.
- fodorii. Messor antennatus var. fodorii Röszler, 1942a: 55 (w.) GREECE.
- Type-material: holotype worker.
- Type-locality: Greece: Chios, Agio Georgios, iv.1935, no. 241 (E. Fodor).
- Type-depository: NHMS.
- [Also described as new by Röszler, 1951: 92, where the holotype is dated iii.1935.]
- Subspecies of antennatus: Bolton, 1995b: 254; Legakis, 2011: 10.
- Distribution: Greece.
Description
References
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Roszler, P. 1942a. Myrmecologisches 1938. Tijdschr. Entomol. 85: 50-71 (page 55, worker described)
- Roszler, P. 1951. Myrmecologisches aus dem Jahre 1938. Zool. Anz. 146: 88-96 (page 92, also described as new)