Messor structor subpolitus

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Messor structor subpolitus
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 subpolitus
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927

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.

  • subpolitus. Messor structor var. subpolitus Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927a: 92 (in key) (w.) KYRGYZSTAN, UZBEKISTAN.
    • Subspecies of structor: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 15.
    • Junior synonym of clivorum: Tarbinsky, 1976: 56; Bolton, 1995b: 257.
    • Junior synonym of structor: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 224; Radchenko, 2016: 171.

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