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Messor punctaticeps
| Messor punctaticeps | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Stenammini |
| Genus: | Messor |
| Species: | M. punctaticeps |
| Binomial name | |
| Messor punctaticeps Barech, Khaldi, Espadaler & Cagniant, 2020 | |
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Algeria, Tunisia (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.
- punctaticeps. Messor punctaticeps Barech, Khaldi, Espadaler & Cagniant, 2020: 16.
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
- Type-localities: Tunisia: Tunis (Santschi), Tunisia: Kairouan (Santschi).
- Type-depository: NHMB.
- [First available use of Messor barbarus st. mediorubra var. punctaticeps Santschi, 1910a: 45 (w.) TUNISIA; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name. Declared as unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Bolton, 1995b: 256.]
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1912f: 98; Santschi, 1917e: 92; Emery, 1921f: 71; Emery, 1922c: 95; Santschi, 1927c: 239.
- Distribution: Tunisia.
Description
References
- Barech, G., Khaldi, M., Espadaler, X., Cagniant, H. 2020. Révision taxonomique du genre Messor (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) au Maghreb et description de Messor hodnii sp. n., une nouvelle espèce de fourmi trouvée en Algérie. Revue suisse de Zoologie 127(1) : 9-19 (doi:10.35929/RSZ.0002).
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 256, Unavailable name)
- Santschi, F. 1910a. Nouvelles fourmis de Tunisie (3e note). Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afr. Nord 1: 43-46 (page 45, worker described)