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Messor rugosus
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Stenammini |
| Genus: | Messor |
| Species: | M. rugosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Messor rugosus (André, 1881)
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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 40.76667° to 32.033333°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Egypt, Israel (type locality), Syria, Türkiye.
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
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| Syntype of Messor rugosus. Worker. Specimen code casent0907755. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- rugosus. Aphaenogaster barbara var. rugosa André, 1881b: 75 (in text) (w.m.) ISRAEL.
- Type-material: syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated).
- Type-locality: Israel: Jaffa (= Tel Aviv-Yafo) (Abeille de Perrin).
- [Note: after Jaffa André adds, “et tout l’Orient”, but gives no other localities.]
- Type-depository: MNHN.
- Combination in Aphaenogaster (Messor): Forel, 1890a: lxx;
- combination in Messor: Emery, 1908e: 458.
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1891b: 12; Forel, 1906c: 190; Forel, 1907a: 25.
- Subspecies of barbarus: André, 1883b: 356; Forel, 1890a: lxx.
- Subspecies of capitatus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 101.
- Subspecies of structor: Santschi, 1923f: 320 (in text).
- Status as species: Emery, 1908e: 458; Emery, 1921f: 74; Menozzi, 1933b: 54; Finzi, 1936: 159; Bernard, 1955a: 360 (in key); Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, H. 1981: 144; Kugler, J. 1988: 257; Bolton, 1995b: 256; Vonshak, et al. 2009: 42; Borowiec, L. 2014: 111 (see note in bibliography).
- Distribution: Israel, Syria.
- Current subspecies: nominal plus bodenheimeri.
Description
References
- André, E. 1881c. Catalogue raisonné des Formicides provenant du voyage en Orient de M. Abeille de Perrin et description des espèces nouvelles. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. (6)(1): 53-78 (page 75, worker, male described)
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Emery, C. 1908f. Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. (Hym.) Teil III. Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 1908: 437-465 (page 458, Combination in Messor, and raised to species)
- Kiran, K., Karaman, C. 2020. Additions to the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoosystema 42(18), 285-329 (doi:10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a18).
- Plowes, N.J.R., Johnson, R.A., Holldobler, B. 2013. Foraging behavior in the ant genus Messor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Myrmecological News 18, 33-49.
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Ben Mordechai J., and J. Kugler. 1976. Ecology of ants in the desert loess plain (Sede Zin) of Sede Boqer (Central Negev). Israel Journal of Zoology 25: 216-217.
- Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Emery, C.. "Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. (Hym.) Teil III. Messor, Goniomma, Oxyopomyrmex." Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1908 (1908): 437-465.
- Forel A. 1906. Fourmis d'Asie mineure et de la Dobrudscha récoltées par M. le Dr. Oscar Vogt et Mme Cécile Vogt, Dr. méd. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 50: 187-190.
- Kugler J. 1988. The zoogeography of Israel. 9. The zoogeography of social insects of Israel and Sinai. Monographiae biologicae 62: 251-275.
- Tohmé, G., and H. Tohmé. "Les fourmis du genre Messor en Syrie. Position systématique. Description de quelques ailés et de formes nouvelles. Répartition géographique." Ecologia Mediterranea 7 (1) (1981): 139-153, fig. 1-22.
- Vonshak M., and A. Ionescu-Hirsch. 2009. A checklist of the ants of Israel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 39: 33-55.