Messor alexandri

Pashaei Rad et al. (2018) found this species in Iran on parkland ground in a moderate rainfall area.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Greece, Iran, Israel, Syria, Turkey.

Nomenclature

 * . Messor alexandri Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, H. 1981: 148.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Turkey (“Syria”): Alexandretta (= Iskenderun) (Geade).
 * Type-depository: NHMB.
 * [First available use of Messor barbarus st. structor var. alexandri Santschi, 1917e: 91 (w.) TURKEY; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
 * As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1921b: 212; Emery, 1921f: 73; Santschi, 1926f: 292.
 * Subspecies of structor: Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 134 (error).
 * Status as species: Collingwood, 1993b: 194; Bolton, 1995b: 252; Vonshak, et al. 2009: 42; Legakis, 2011: 9; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 511; Borowiec, L. 2014: 101; Lebas, et al. 2016: 298.
 * Distribution: Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey.

Type Material
Salata & Borowiec (2019): syntype (w.): M. barbarus | sub. structor | v. alexandri | type | Santschi || Type || Sammlung | Dr. F. Santschi | Kairouan || Asi Minor | Alexandretti || ANTWEB | CASENT0913151 (NHMB).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
 * Borowiec L., and S. Salata. 2012. Ants of Greece - Checklist, comments and new faunistic data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus 23(4): 461-563.
 * Menozzi C. 1929. Ricerche faunistiche nelle isole italiane dell'Egeo. Imenotteri (formiche). Archivio Zoologico Italiano. 13: 145-146.
 * Pashaei Rad S., B. Taylor, R. Torabi, E. Aram, G. Abolfathi, R. Afshari, F. Borjali, M. Ghatei, F. Hediary, F. Jazini, V. Heidary Kiah, Z. Mahmoudi, F. Safariyan, and M. Seiri. 2018. Further records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 64(2): 145-159.
 * Santschi F. 1926. Travaux scientifiques de l'Armée d'Orient (1916-1918). Fourmis. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 32: 286-293.
 * Santschi, F.. "Races et variétés nouvelles du Messor barbarus L." Bulletin de la Société d' Histoire naturelle de l' Afrique du Nord 8 (1917): 89-94.
 * Tohme G. 1996. Formicidae. Etude de la diversité biologique n° 4 . Ministère de lAgriculture à Beyrouth (Eds.). P85-87.
 * Tohme G., and H. Tohme. 2014. Nouvelles liste des especes de fourmis du Liban (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea). Lebanese Science Journal 15(1): 133-141.
 * 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.