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Messor muscatus
| Messor muscatus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Stenammini |
| Genus: | Messor |
| Species: | M. muscatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Messor muscatus Collingwood & Agosti, 1996
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Nothing is known about the biology of Messor muscatus.
Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 23.613333° to 14.635122°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Saudi Arabia.
Palaearctic Region: Oman (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.
- muscatus. Messor muscatus Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 320, fig. 7 (w.) OMAN, SAUDI ARABIA, YEMEN.
- Type-material: holotype worker, 4 paratype workers.
- Type-locality: holotype Oman: Ras al-Hamra, Muscat, 19.vi.1985 (C. Holzschuh); paratypes: 1 worker with same data, 1 worker Saudi Arabia: Wadi Shijah, 4.v.1976 (W. Büttiker), 2 workers Yemen: Madinat al-Shariq, 7.iii.1993 (C.A. Collingwood).
- Type-depository: NHMB (perhaps also in WMLC).
- Status as species: Borowiec, L. 2014: 109.
- Distribution: Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen.
Description
Worker
Holotype: TL 5.2; HW 1.11; EL/HW 0.31; SI 103.
This small brown species has large eyes and a long scape which surpasses the occiput when laid back. The propodeum is rounded as in Messor syriacus. The psammophore is distinct but less developed compared with M. syriacus and the whole body is evenly brownish, not bicoloured as in M. syriacus. The postpetiole is long and low as in Messor crawleyi and Messor hismai but this species is distinctly different from both of these in the shape of the propodeum. There are long body hairs over the promesonotum and a few shorter hairs on the first gastral tergite.
Type Material
Holotype: worker, Oman, Ras al-Hamra, Muscat, 19.VI.1985, C Holzschuh. - Paratypes: Oman: 1 worker, same series as holotype. - Saudi Arabia: 1 worker, Wadi Shijah, 4.V:1976, W. Bilttiker. - Yemen: 2 workers, Madinat al-Shariq, 7.III.1993, C. A. Collingwood.
References
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Collingwood, C. A. and D. Agosti. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna Saudi Arabia. 15:300-385. (page 320, Fig. 7 worker described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Collingwood, C. A., and Donat Agosti. "Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (Part 2)." Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15 (1996): 300-385.
- Sharaf M. R., B. L. Fisher, H. M. Al Dhafer, A. Polaszek, and A. S. Aldawood. 2018. Additions to the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Oman: an updated list, new records and a description of two new species. Asian Myrmecology 10: e010004