Messor minor maurus
Messor minor maurus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Stenammini |
Genus: | Messor |
Species: | M. minor |
Subspecies: | M. minor maurus |
Trinomial name | |
Messor minor maurus Barquin, 1981 |
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Canary Islands (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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Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- maurus. Messor minor subsp. maurus Barquin Diez, 1981: 81.
- Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated).
- Type-localities: Spain: Canary Is, Bejano (Cabrera), Canary Is, Tenerife, Medano (Cabrera), Algeria: Taourit (Nadig), Tunisia: Kairouan (F. Santschi), Tunisia: Sousse (F. Santschi).
- Type-depository: NHMB.
- [First available use of Messor instabilis st. minor var. maura Santschi, 1923f: 325 (w.q.) SPAIN (Canary Is), ALGERIA, TUNISIA; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
- [Unresolved junior primary homonym of Messor sublaeviceps var. maurus Santschi, 1927c: 244 (Bolton, 1995b: 255).]
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1927d: 248; Wheeler, W.M. 1927g: 103; Bernard, 1948: 139; Wellenius, 1955: 5; Báez & Ortega, 1978: 190.
- Subspecies of minor: Hohmann, et al. 1993: 152; Bolton, 1995b: 255.
- Distribution: Algeria, Spain (Canary Is), Tunisia.
Description
References
- Barquín, J. 1981. Las hormigas de Canarias. Taxonomía, ecología y distribución de los Formicidae. Colecc. Monogr. (Secr. Publ. Univ. La Laguna) 3: 1-584 (page 81, worker, queen described)
- Santschi, F. 1923f. Messor et autres fourmis paléarctiques. Rev. Suisse Zool. 30: 317-336 (page 325, First available use of Messor instabilis st minor var. maura; unavailable name.)