Messor structor romanus

Messor structor romanus
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Messor structor)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Stenammini
Genus:	Messor
Species:	Messor structor romanus Santschi, 1926

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Messor structor.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• romanus. Messor structor var. romanus Santschi, 1926f: 286 (in list).
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated), syntype queen.
  • Type-locality: Romania: Bucharest (Montandon).
  • Type-depository: NHMB.
  • [First available use of Messor barbarus st. structor var. romana Santschi, 1917e: 91 (w.q.) ROMANIA; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name (Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 61).]
  • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1921b: 211; Emery, 1921f: 73; Santschi, 1926f: 291 (in text); Arnol’di & Dlussky, 1978: 537 (in key); Legakis, 2011: 11 (error).
  • Junior synonym of structor: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 224; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 114; Bolton, 1995b: 256.