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Messor kasakorum
| Messor kasakorum | |
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| 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 | |
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Identification
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. |
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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
- Arnol'di, K. V. 1970a. New species and races of the ant genus Messor (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zool. Zh. 49: 72-88 (page 82, Fig. 6 worker, male described)
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- 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.
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.