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Messor striatulus
| Messor striatulus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Stenammini |
| Genus: | Messor |
| Species: | M. striatulus |
| Binomial name | |
| Messor striatulus (Emery, 1891)
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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 36.4° to 28.269722°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Algeria, Morocco, 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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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
Images from AntWeb
   
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| Syntype of Aphaenogaster capitata striatula. Worker. Specimen code casent0904121. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- striatulus. Aphaenogaster capitata var. striatula Dalla Torre, 1893: 101.
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
- Type-localities: Algeria, Tunisia (no further data).
- Type-depository: MSNG.
- [First available use of Aphaenogaster (Messor) barbarus r. capitatus var. striatulus Emery, 1891b: 11 (in text), 12 (in list) (w.) TUNISIA, ALGERIA; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
- [Misspelled as striatus by Santschi, 1936c: 200.]
- Cagniant & Espadaler, 1998: 429 (q.m.).
- Combination in Messor: Emery, 1908e: 453.
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1905b: 176; Emery, 1908e: 453; Karavaiev, 1912a: 10; Stitz, 1917: 343; Emery, 1921f: 72.
- Subspecies of aegyptiacus: Santschi, 1923f: 321; Santschi, 1936c: 200; Bernard, 1953a: 142 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 257.
- Status as species: Cagniant & Espadaler, 1998: 429; Cagnaint, 2006a: 197; Borowiec, L. 2014: 112; Barech, et al. 2020: 17.
- Material of the unavailable name curvispina referred here by Santschi, 1923f: 321 (in text); Donisthorpe, 1944a: 3 (in text).
- Material of the unavailable name falcistriae referred here by Barech, et al. 2020: 17.
- Distribution: Algeria, Morocco, 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).
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Cagniant, H.; Espadaler, X. 1998 [1997]. Le genre Messor au Maroc (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. (n.s.) 33: 419-434 (page 429, queen, male described)
- Cagniant, H.; Espadaler, X. 1998 [1997]. Le genre Messor au Maroc (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. (n.s.) 33: 419-434 (page 429, Raised to species)
- Emery, C. 1891c. Exploration scientifique de la Tunisie. Zoologie. - Hyménoptères. Révision critique des fourmis de la Tunisie. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, iii + 21 pp. (page 11, (in text) worker described)
- Emery, C. 1908f. Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. (Hym.) Teil III. Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 1908: 437-465 (page 453, Combination in Messor)
- Santschi, F. 1923f. Messor et autres fourmis paléarctiques. Rev. Suisse Zool. 30: 317-336 (page 321, Material of the unavailable name curvispina referred here (in text).)
- Santschi, F. 1936c. Liste et descriptions de fourmis du Maroc. Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Maroc 16: 198-210 (page 200, Variety of aegyptiacus (misspelled here as striatus))
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Barech G., M. Khaldi, S. Ziane, A. Zedam, S. Doumadji, M. Sharaf, and X. Espadaler. 2016. A first checklist and diversity of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the saline dry lake Chott El Hodna in Algeria, a Ramsar Conservation Wetland. African Entomology 24(1): 143–152.
- Bernard F. 1953. Les fourmis du Tassili des Ajjer. Pp. 121-250 in: Bernard, F. (ed.) 1953. Mission scientifique au Tassili des Ajjer (1949). Volume I. Recherches zoologiques et médicales. Paris: P. Lechevalier, 302 pp.
- Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Cagniant, H. 2006. Liste actualisée des fourmis du Maroc. Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8: 193-200.
- Cagniant, H., and X. Espadaler. "Le genre Messor au Maroc." Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (N.S.) 33 (4) (1998): 419-434.
- Cagniant, H.. "Contribution à la connaissance des fourmis marocaines. Camponotus hölldobleri n. sp. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)." Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France Évolution et Zoologie 116 (1991): 37-48.
- Delye, G., and J. L. Bonaric. "Fourmis du sud Marocain." Etude de certains milieux du Maroc et de leux evolution recente RCP 249 (1973).
- Santschi, F. 1923. Messor et autres fourmis paléarctiques. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 30: 317-336
- Santschi, F.. "Messor et autres fourmis paléarctiques." Revue Suisse de Zoologie 30 (1923): 317-336.
- Stitz, H.. "Ameisen aus dem westlichen Mittelmeergebiet und von den Kanarischen Inseln." Mitteilungen aus den Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 8 (1917): 333-353.