Messor rugosus

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

Nomenclature

 * . Aphaenogaster barbara var. rugosa André, 1881b: 75 (in text) (w.m.) ISRAEL.
 * Type-material: syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated).
 * Type-locality: Israel: Jaffa (= Tel Aviv-Yafo) (Abeille de Perrin).
 * [Note: after Jaffa André adds, “et tout l’Orient”, but gives no other localities.]
 * Type-depository: MNHN.
 * Combination in Aphaenogaster (Messor): Forel, 1890a: lxx;
 * combination in Messor: Emery, 1908e: 458.
 * As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1891b: 12; Forel, 1906c: 190; Forel, 1907a: 25.
 * Subspecies of barbarus: André, 1883b: 356; Forel, 1890a: lxx.
 * Subspecies of capitatus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 101.
 * Subspecies of structor: Santschi, 1923f: 320 (in text).
 * Status as species: Emery, 1908e: 458; Emery, 1921f: 74; Menozzi, 1933b: 54; Finzi, 1936: 159; Bernard, 1955a: 360 (in key); Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, H. 1981: 144; Kugler, J. 1988: 257; Bolton, 1995b: 256; Vonshak, et al. 2009: 42; Borowiec, L. 2014: 111 (see note in bibliography).
 * Distribution: Israel, Syria.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus bodenheimeri.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Ben Mordechai J., and J. Kugler. 1976. Ecology of ants in the desert loess plain (Sede Zin) of Sede Boqer (Central Negev). Israel Journal of Zoology 25: 216-217.
 * Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
 * Emery, C.. "Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. (Hym.) Teil III. Messor, Goniomma, Oxyopomyrmex." Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1908 (1908): 437-465.
 * Forel A. 1906. Fourmis d'Asie mineure et de la Dobrudscha récoltées par M. le Dr. Oscar Vogt et Mme Cécile Vogt, Dr. méd. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 50: 187-190.
 * Kugler J. 1988. The zoogeography of Israel. 9. The zoogeography of social insects of Israel and Sinai. Monographiae biologicae 62: 251-275.
 * 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.
 * Vonshak M., and A. Ionescu-Hirsch. 2009. A checklist of the ants of Israel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 39: 33-55.