Messor caducus

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Messor caducus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Stenammini
Genus: Messor
Species group: instabilis
Species complex: wasmanni
Species: M. caducus
Binomial name
Messor caducus
(Victor, 1839)

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Subspecies
Synonyms

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 42.596228° to 27.68333333°.

   
North
Temperate 		North
Subtropical 		Tropical South
Subtropical 		South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Kazakhstan, Malta, North Macedonia, Romania, Russian Federation (type locality), Slovakia, Türkiye.

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.

  • caducus. Formica caduca Victor, 1839: 47, pl. 2, fig. d (w.) ARMENIA.
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: Armenia: close to bank of River Araxes (T. Victor).
    • Type-depository: unknown, perhaps ZMUM?
    • Combination in Atta: Mayr, 1863: 395;
    • combination in Aphaenogaster: Roger, 1863b: 29;
    • combination in Stenamma (Messor): Emery, 1895a: 179; Emery, 1898c: 125;
    • combination in Messor: Ruzsky, 1905b: 754.
    • Junior synonym of barbarus: Roger, 1863b: 29; Mayr, 1863: 395; Emery & Forel, 1879: 461; Nasonov, 1889: 37.
    • Junior synonym of semirufus: Emery, 1921f: 72.
    • Subspecies of barbarus: Emery, 1891b: 12; Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 100 (footnote); Emery, 1895a: 179; Emery, 1897e: 597; Emery, 1898c: 139.
    • Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 100; Ruzsky, 1902d: 28; Ruzsky, 1905b: 754; Kolossov, 1932: 118; Arnol'di, 1977b: 1638, 1641 (in key); Schembri & Collingwood, 1981: 426; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 54; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 271 (in key); Baroni Urbani, Aktaç & Camiltepe, 1989: 291; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 121; Arakelian, 1994: 34; Bolton, 1995b: 253; Schembri & Collingwood, 1995: 154; Petrov, 2006: 92 (in key); Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 139; Paknia, et al. 2008: 154; Lush, 2009: 114; Lapeva-Gjonova, et al. 2010: 14; Legakis, 2011: 9; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 512; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 19; Borowiec, L. 2014: 103 (see note in bibliography); Lebas, et al. 2016: 300; Bračko, 2019: 172; Khalili-Moghadam, et al. 2019: 172.
    • Senior synonym of caucasicola: Arakelian, 1994: 34; Bolton, 1995b: 253; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 139.
    • Material of the unavailable name semirubra referred here by Arnol'di, 1977b: 1638; Arakelian, 1994: 35; Bolton, 1995b: 253.
    • Distribution: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, France (Corsica), Georgia, Greece, Iran, Italy (+ Sardinia, Sicily), Malta, Russia, Serbia, Syria, Turkey.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus glabrescens.
  • caucasicola. Messor caducus subsp. caucasicola Arnol'di, 1977b: 1639 (w.q.m.) GEORGIA.
    • Type-material: syntype worker(s), syntype queen(s), syntype male(s) (numbers not stated).
    • Type-locality: Georgia: Tblisi (K. Arnol’di).
    • Type-depository: ZMUM.
    • Junior synonym of caducus: Arakelian, 1994: 34; Bolton, 1995b: 253; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 139.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Agosti, D. and C.A. Collingwood. 1987. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) and a key to the worker caste. I. Synonymic list. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 60: 51-62
  • Aldawood AS, Sharaf MR (2011) Monomorium dryhimi sp. n., a new ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the M. monomorium group from Saudi Arabia, with a key to the Arabian Monomorium monomorium-group. ZooKeys 106: 47–54. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.106.139
  • Baroni Urbani C., N. Aktaç, and Y. Camlitepe. 1989. Disclosing the mystery of Messor caducus Motschulsky (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 62: 291-301.
  • Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
  • Borowiec L., and S. Salata. 2012. Ants of Greece - Checklist, comments and new faunistic data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus 23(4): 461-563.
  • Bracko G., K. Kiran, C. Karaman, S. Salata, and L. Borowiec. 2016. Survey of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Greek Thrace. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7945. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e7945
  • Czechowski W., A. Radchenko, W. Czechowska and K. Vepsäläinen. 2012. The ants of Poland with reference to the myrmecofauna of Europe. Fauna Poloniae 4. Warsaw: Natura Optima Dux Foundation, 1-496 pp
  • Emery, C.. "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der palaearktischen Ameisen." Öfversigt af Finska Vetenskaps-Societetens Förhandlingar (Helsinki) 20 (1898): 124-151.
  • Ghahari H., C. A. Collingwood, M. Tabari, and H. Ostovan. 2009. Faunistic notes on Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of rice fields and surrounding grasslands in northern Iran. Mun. Ent. Zool. 4(1): 184-189.
  • Gomez K. 2017. Two species of exotic ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) new to Malta. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa (S.E.A.) 61: 233-235.
  • Karaman M. G. 2009. An introduction to the ant fauna of Macedonia (Balkan Peninsula), a check list (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Natura Montenegrina 8(3): 151-162.
  • Khalili-Moghadam A., L. Borowiec, and A. Nemati. 2019. New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari Province of Iran with taxonomic comments. Polish Journal of Entomology 88 (2): 163–182.
  • Kiran K., and C. Karaman. 2012. First annotated checklist of the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3548: 1-38.
  • Kiran K., and N. Aktac. 2006. The vertical distribution of the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Samanh Mountains, Turkey. Linzer Biol. Beitr. 38(2): 1105-1122.
  • Lapeva-Gjonova, L., V. Antonova, A. G. Radchenko, and M. Atanasova. "Catalogue of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Bulgaria." ZooKeys 62 (2010): 1-124.
  • Lush M. J. 2009. Some ant records (Hymenoptera; Formicidae) from the Middle East. Zoology in the Middle East 47: 114-116.
  • Lush M.J. 2009. Some ant records (Hymenoptera; Formicidae) from the Middle East. Zoology in the Middle East 47: 114-116.
  • Paknia O., A. Radchenko, H. Alipanah, and M. Pfeiffer. 2008. A preliminary checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Iran. Myrmecological News 11: 151-159.
  • Schembri, Stephen P. and Cedric A. Collingwood. A Revision of the Myrmecofauna of the Maltese Islands. 417-442.
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