Messor kasakorum

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Messor kasakorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Stenammini
Genus: Messor
Species: M. kasakorum
Binomial name
Messor kasakorum
Arnol'di, 1970
Subspecies

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Kazakhstan (type locality).

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.

  • kasakorum. Messor kasakorum Arnol'di, 1970a: 82, figs. 5(4,6), 6(1) (w.m.) KAZAKHSTAN.
    • Type-material: holotype worker.
    • Type-locality: Kazakhstan: Tartugai, no. 45-320 (K. Arnol’di).
    • Type-depository: ZMUM.
    • [Misspelled as kazakorum by Dlussky, 1981a: 17.]
    • Status as species: Arnol’di, 1977b: 1647 (in key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 537 (in key); Dlussky, 1981a: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 255; Borowiec, L. 2014: 107 (see note in bibliography).
    • Distribution: Kazakhstan
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus nadezhdae.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Arnol'di K. V. 1970. New species and races of the ant genus Messor (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 49:72-88.
  • Dubovikoff D. A., and Z. M. Yusupov. 2018. 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.