Messor meridionalis

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates. Palaearctic Region: Albania, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Montenegro, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

It is known from Central Asia and the Middle East (Abdul-Rassoul et al. 2013).

Nomenclature

 *  meridionalis. Aphaenogaster barbara var. meridionalis André, 1883b: 355 (w.) GREECE. Ruzsky, 1905b: 747 (m.); Emery, 1908e: 450 (q.). Combination in Messor: Emery, 1897f: 239; in Stenamma (Messor): Emery, 1898c: 125; in Messor: Ruzsky, 1903b: 315; Ruzsky, 1905b: 746. Subspecies of barbarus: Emery, 1908e: 450; Forel, 1910a: 24; Santschi, 1921a: 110; of semirufus: Santschi, 1927c: 230; Finzi, 1928c: 788; of minor: Arnol'di, 1948: 211. Status as species: Bondroit, 1918: 155; Müller, 1923: 64; Collingwood, 1961a: 58; Pisarski, 1970: 306; Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, H. 1981: 144. Junior synonym of semirufus: Baroni Urbani, 1974: 227; of caducus: Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 121. Revived from synonymy, status as species: Collingwood, 1985: 251; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 318.

Additional References

 * Abdul-Rassoul, M.S., Ali, H.B. & Augul, R.SH. 2013. New Records of Unidentified Ants worker (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) stored in Iraqi Natural History Museum with key to Species. Adv. Biores., Vol 4 (2): 27-33.