Messor hoggarensis

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Messor hoggarensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Stenammini
Genus: Messor
Species: M. hoggarensis
Binomial name
Messor hoggarensis
Santschi, 1929

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Specimen Labels

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 33.061944° to 23.166667°.

   
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Temperate
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Subtropical
Tropical South
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Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Algeria (type locality), Morocco.

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.

  • hoggarensis. Messor sublaeviceps st. hoggarensis Santschi, 1929c: 98, fig. 1 (w.q.) ALGERIA.
    • Type-material: 4 syntype workers, 2 syntype queens.
    • Type-localities: 3 workers, 2 queens Algeria: Hoggar, Oued Ilâmane, 2000 m., 14-15.iii.1928 (de Peyerimhoff), 1 worker Hoggar, Tiguendaoui, 2070 m (de Peyerimhoff).
    • Type-depository: NHMB.
    • [Also described as new by Santschi, 1934f: 166.]
    • Cagniant & Espadaler, 1998: 427 (m.).
    • Subspecies of sublaeviceps: Santschi, 1929g 165; Santschi, 1939d: 72.
    • Subspecies of meridionalis: Bernard, 1948: 140.
    • Subspecies of instabilis: Bernard, 1950b: 285.
    • Subspecies of aegyptiacus: Bernard, 1953a: 142 (in key); Délye, 1960: 262; Bolton, 1995b: 254.
    • Status as species: Cagniant & Espadaler, 1998: 427; Cagniant, 2006a: 197; Borowiec, L. 2014: 107; Barech, et al. 2020: 16.
    • Distribution: Algeria, Morocco.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Bernard F. 1950. Contribution à l'étude de l'Aïr. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mém. Inst. Fr. Afr. Noire 10: 284-294.
  • Bernard F. 1953. Les fourmis du Tassili des Ajjer. Pp. 121-250 in: Bernard, F. (ed.) 1953. Mission scientifique au Tassili des Ajjer (1949). Volume I. Recherches zoologiques et médicales. Paris: P. Lechevalier, 302 pp.
  • 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., and X. Espadaler. "Le genre Messor au Maroc." Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (N.S.) 33 (4) (1998): 419-434.
  • Cagniant, H.. "Liste actualisee des fourmis du Maroc (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8 (2006): 193-200.
  • Delye, G., and J. L. Bonaric. "Fourmis du sud Marocain." Etude de certains milieux du Maroc et de leux evolution recente RCP 249 (1973).
  • Délye G. 1960. Fourmis du Tassili des Ajjer. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 51: 259-272.
  • Santschi, F. 1934. Fourmis du Sahara central. Memoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle d'Afrique du Nord 4: 165-177.