Messor clivorum

Messor clivorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Stenammini
Genus:	Messor
Species:	M. clivorum
Binomial name
Messor clivorum Ruzsky, 1905
Subspecies
Messor clivorum sevani Arnol'di, 1977

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation (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.

Nomenclature

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

• clivorum. Aphaenogaster (Messor) structor var. clivorum Ruzsky, 1905b: 735 (s.w.) RUSSIA, MOLDOVA.
  • Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of Steiner, Csösz, et al. 2018: supplementary material, 6).
  • Type-locality: Russia: Kazanskaya gub., Chistopodsk, 8.vii.1892 (Ruzsky?).
  • [Note: other localities cited in original description: Russia: Samarsk, Buzuluksk, vi.1893 (Gordyagin), Russia: Stavropol, 12.vi.1899 (no collector’s name), Russia: Simbirsk, Lyakhovki, 1894 (no collector’s name), Moldova: Bessarabia, Shalbolats, 1904 (Brauner).]
  • Type-depositories: MSNG (lectotype); ZMUM (original syntypes).
  • Emery, 1921b: 211 (footnote) (q.); Karavaiev, 1927a: 286 (q.m.).
  • Combination in Messor: Emery, 1908e: 454.
  • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1923f: 320; Karavaiev, 1927a: 286; Karavaiev, 1927c: 261 (in key); Karavaiev, 1934: 108.
  • Subspecies of barbarus: Emery, 1908e: 454; Forel, 1910a: 24; Forel, 1911d: 347; Emery, 1912f: 96; Emery, 1915h: 1; Santschi, 1917e: 92; Emery, 1921f: 70; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 136.
  • Junior synonym of structor: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 224; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 114; Arakelian, 1994: 38; Bolton, 1995b: 253; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 139; Legakis, 2011: 11; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 20; Radchenko, 2016: 171.
  • Status as species: Emery, 1921b: 210 (footnote); Schkaff, 1925: 274; Arnol'di, 1948: 211 (in list); Dlussky, 1962: 179; Tarbinsky, 1976: 56 (redescription); Hamann & Klemm, 1976: 671; Arnol'di, 1977b: 1644 (in key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 537 (in key); He & Song, 2009: 722; Steiner, Csösz, et al. 2018: supplementary material, 6.
  • Distribution: China, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine.
  • Current subspecies: nominal plus sevani.

References

• 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., Wieczorek, K., Salata, S. 2021. Review of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Dodecanese Archipelago, Greece. Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom Entomology 30: 1-33 (doi:10.5281/ZENODO.5571270).
• Dubovikoff, D.A., Yusupov, Z.M. 2017. Family Formicidae - Ants. In Belokobylskij S. A. and A. S. Lelej: Annotated catalogue of the Hymenoptera of Russia. Proceedingss of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 6: 197-210.
• 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).