Messor clypeatus

Messor clypeatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Stenammini
Genus:	Messor
Species:	M. clypeatus
Binomial name
Messor clypeatus Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Kazakhstan (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.

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.

Nomenclature

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

• clypeatus. Messor similis var. clypeatus Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927a: 93 (in key) (w.) KAZAKHSTAN.
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
  • Type-locality: Kazakhstan?: “Central Asia”: Hungersteppe: railway stations Obrutschevo and Syr-Darjinskaya” (no collector’s name, perhaps Kuznetsov-Ugamsky).
  • Type-depository: ZMUM.
  • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1927d: 248.
  • Subspecies of rufus: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 9.
  • Status as species: Arnol'di, 1977b: 1646 (in key); Dlussky, 1981a: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 253.
  • Distribution: Kazakhstan.

References

• Arnol'di, K. V. 1977b. Review of the harvester ants of the genus Messor (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the fauna of the USSR. Zool. Zh. 5 56: 1637-1648 (page 1646, Raised to species)
• Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1927a. Vorläufige Uebersicht über die mittelasiatischen Formen der Gattung Messor (Hym., Form.). Folia Myrmecol. Termit. 1: 89-94 (page 93, worker described (in key))
• Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1929d. The ants of the genus Messor in the fauna of Middle Asia. Acta Univ. Asiae Mediae Ser. 8A Zool. 6: 1-25 (page 9, Subspecies of rufus)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Mokrousov M. V., and V.A. Zryanin. 2015. Materials on the early spring wasps and ants fauna of Uzbekistan (Hymenoptera: Vespomorpha: Chrysidoidea, Scolioidea, Pompiloidea, Vespoidea, Apoidea [Spheciformes], Formicoidea). Entomological research Russia and its neighboring regions 5: 36–48.