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Messor structor tyrrhenus
| Messor structor tyrrhenus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Stenammini |
| Genus: | Messor |
| Species: | M. structor |
| Subspecies: | M. structor tyrrhenus |
| Trinomial name | |
| Messor structor tyrrhenus Emery, 1898 | |
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Gibraltar, Italy (type locality), Spain.
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.
- tyrrhenus. Stenamma (Messor) structor var. tyrrhena Emery, 1898c: 141 (w.q.m.) ITALY, SPAIN, GIBRALTAR.
- Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated).
- Type-localities: Italy (+ islands) (no further data), Spain: (no further data), Gibraltar (J.J. Walker).
- Type-depository: MSNG.
- [Misspelled as tyrrenus by Ruzsky, 1905b: 733; misspelled as thyrrena by Emery, 1921b: 210.]
- Combination in Messor: Emery, 1908e: 456.
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1908e: 456; Forel, 1911d: 347; Emery, 1912f: 97; Karavaiev, 1912a: 10; Krausse, 1912b: 164; Emery, 1915a: 245; Emery, 1916b: 143; Menozzi, 1918: 82; Emery, 1921f: 73; Menozzi, 1921: 26; Soudek, 1925b: 15.
- Subspecies of barbarus: Ceballos, 1956: 302.
- Junior synonym of rufitarsis Fabricius: Bernard, 1967: 144; Collingwood, 1978: 68.
- Junior synonym of structor: Emery, 1921b: 210; Finzi, 1924a: 13; Finzi, 1929: 90; Zimmermann, 1935: 15; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 66; Bolton, 1995b: 258; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 489; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 20; Radchenko, 2016: 171.
- Subspecies of structor: Forel, 1915d: 35 (in key); Wheeler, W.M. 1926: 2; Kutter, 1927: 99; Steiner, Csösz, et al. 2018: supplementary material, 6 (nomen dubium).
- Distribution: Gibraltar, Italy (+ Sicily), Spain (+ Balearics), Turkey, Ukraine.