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Messor platyceras rubella
| Messor platyceras rubella | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification (junior synonym of Messor platyceras) | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Stenammini |
| Genus: | Messor |
| Species: | Messor platyceras rubella Crawley, 1920 |
This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Messor platyceras.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- rubella. Messor platyceras var. rubella Crawley, 1920a: 164 (s.w.m.) IRAN.
- Junior synonym of clivorum: Emery, 1921b: 210 (footnote); Bolton, 1995b: 256 (error).
- Junior synonym of structor: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 224; Radchenko, 2016: 171.
- Junior synonym of platyceras: Khalili-Moghadam et al., 2019: 173.
References
- Crawley, W. C. 1920a. Ants from Mesopotamia and north-west Persia. Entomol. Rec. J. Var. 32: 162-166.
- Khalini-Moghadam, A., Borowiec, L., Nemati, A. 2019. New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari Province of Iran with taxonomic comments. Polish Journal of Entomology 88: 163–182 (DOI 10.2478/pjen-2019-0013).