Messor himalayanus

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India, Pakistan. Palaearctic Region: Afghanistan, Turkey.

Nomenclature

 * . Stenamma (Messor) barbarum r. himalayanum Forel, 1902c: 221 (s.w.q.m.) INDIA (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand).
 * Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated).
 * Type-localities: India: Dharmsala (Sage), Dharmsala (Fulton), Kashmir (Lobinière), Mussories (Rothney), Ton’s Valley, 3500 ft (Smythies), Panjah, 5000 ft (Sage).
 * Type-depository: MHNG.
 * [Stenamma (Messor) barbarum r. himalayanum Forel, 1901h: 61. Nomen nudum.]
 * [Misspelled as hymalayanus by Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927a: 89, Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 15.]
 * Combination in Messor: Bingham, 1903: 279.
 * Subspecies of barbarus: Forel, 1903a: 695; Forel, 1904c: 25; Forel, 1904d: 175; Forel, 1906b: 86; Emery, 1908e: 454; Viehmeyer, 1914b: 40; Emery, 1921f: 70; Emery, 1922c: 95; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927a: 89 (in key); Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 15; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 136.
 * Subspecies of structor: Santschi, 1923f: 320 (in text).
 * Status as species: Bingham, 1903: 279; Stärcke, 1935: 261; Menozzi, 1939a: 297; Eidmann, 1942: 245; Collingwood, 1961a: 60; Pisarski, 1967: 383; Pisarski, 1970: 306; Arnol'di, 1977b: 1643 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 254; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 19; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 38; Rasheed, et al. 2019: 432.
 * Distribution: Afghanistan, India, Mongolia, Pakistan.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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