Messor minor denticulatus

Messor minor denticulatus
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Messor laboriosus)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Stenammini
Genus:	Messor
Species:	Messor minor denticulatus Santschi, 1927

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Messor laboriosus.

Nomenclature

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

• denticulatus. Messor minor st. denticulatus Santschi, 1927d: 247 (w.) KYRGYZSTAN, TURKMENISTAN (date of publication 10.xi.1927).
  • [First available use of Messor barbarus subsp. meridionalis var. denticulatus Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927a: 90 (in key) (w.) KYRGYZSTAN, TURKMENISTAN (date of publication (30).iv.1927); unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
  • Subspecies of barbarus: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 18.
  • Synonym of laboriosus: Santschi, 1927d: 247; Arnol’di, 1977b: 1641 (in key); Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 220.
  • [Note: Santschi, Arnol’di, and Dlussky, et al. all give denticulatus as senior synonym, but laboriosus has priority.]
  • Status as species: Tarbinsky, 1976: 61 (redescription); Arnol'di, 1977b: 1641 (in key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 537 (in key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 271 (in key); Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 219; Bolton, 1995b: 253; Legakis, 2011: 10; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 513.
  • Material of the unavailable name glabriusculus referred here by Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 220.

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 1641, Raised to species)
• Arnol'di, K. V.; Dlussky, G. M. 1978. Superfam. Formicoidea. 1. Fam. Formicidae - ants. Pp. 519-556 in: Medvedev, G. S. (ed.) Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. 3. Hymenoptera. Part 1. Opredeliteli Faune SSSR 119:3-584. (page 537 , Raised to species (in key))
• Borowiec, L. & Salata, S. 2013. Ants of Greece – additions and corrections (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 24, 335-401.
• Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S.; Zabelin, S. I. 1990 [1989]. Ants of Turkmenistan. Ashkhabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp. (page 220, Material of the unavailable name glabriusculus referred here)
• Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1927a. Vorläufige Uebersicht über die mittelasiatischen Formen der Gattung Messor (Hym., Form.). Folia Myrmecol. Termit. 1: 89-94 (page 90, First available use of Messor barbarus subsp. meridionalis var. denticulatus; (in key) unavailable name.)
• Pashaei Rad, S., Taylor, B., Torabi, R., Aram, E., Abolfathi, G., Afshari, R., Borjali, F., Ghatei, M., Hediary, F., Jazini, F., Heidary Kiah, V., Mahmoudi, Z., Safariyan, F., Seiri, M. 2018. Further records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 64, 145-159 (doi:10.1080/09397140.2018.1442301).
• Santschi, F. 1927d. Revision des Messor du groupe instabilis Sm. (Hymenopt.). Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 27: 225-250 (page 247, worker described)
• Tarbinsky, Y.S. 1976. The ants of Kirghizia. Frunze: Ilim, 217 pp. (page 61, Raised to species)