Messor hellenius

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Greece.

Nomenclature

 * . Messor hellenius Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 54.
 * Type-material: 1 syntype worker, 4 syntype queens.
 * Type-locality: Greece: Gulf of Corinth, Itea (Provatelle).
 * Type-depositories: MNHN, NHMB.
 * [First available use of Messor barbarus st. varrialei var. hellenis Santschi, 1926f: 290 (w.q.) GREECE; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
 * [Note: Santschi, 1926f: 286 (in list) spells the name as hellenius, but in the taxon caption (p. 290) it is spelled as hellenis. Misspelled as helensis by Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 66.]
 * As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Finzi, 1928c: 788; Finzi, 1939c: 154; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 66.
 * Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 254; Legakis, 2011: 10; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 514; Borowiec, L. 2014: 106; Lebas, et al. 2016: 298; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2018: 6; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 46; Salata & Borowiec, 2019a: 66; Kiran & Karaman, 2020: 307.
 * Distribution: Greece, Turkey.

Type Material
Salata & Borowiec (2019): syntype (w.): v. hellenius | Santschi || [red label] || type || Messor | structor Lat. | varrialei Em || MUSEUM PARIS | SALONIQUE | D’RIVET 1918 || NOVEMBRE || Sammlung | Dr. F. Santschi | Kairouan || ANTWEB | CASENT0913186 (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.
 * Borowiec L., and S. Salata. 2017. Ants of the Peloponnese, Greece (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Polish Journal of Entomology 86: 193-236.
 * Borowiec L., and S. Salata. 2018. Notes on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Samos Island, Greece. Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom Entomology 27: 1-13.
 * Bracko G., K. Kiran, C. Karaman, S. Salata, and L. Borowiec. 2016. Survey of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Greek Thrace. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7945. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e7945
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 * Salata S., L. Borowiec, and A.Trichas. 2018. Taxonomic Revision of the Cretan Fauna of the Genus Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with Notes on the Endemism of Ant Fauna of Crete. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 68(4): 769-808.
 * Salata S., and L Borowiec. 2017. Species of Tetramorium semilaeve complex from Balkans and western Turkey, with description of two new species of (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 62:279–313.
 * Salata S., and L. Borowiec. 2018. Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Greek ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom Entomology 27: 1-51.
 * Salata S., and L. Borowiec. 2019. Preliminary contributions toward a revision of Greek Messor Forel, 1890 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 43: 52-67.
 * Salata S., and L. Borowiec. 2019. Preliminary division of not socially parasitic Greek Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) with a description of three new species. ZooKeys 877: 81-131.
 * Santschi F. 1926. Travaux scientifiques de l'Armée d'Orient (1916-1918). Fourmis. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 32: 286-293.