Messor minor maurus

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Canary Islands.

Nomenclature

 * . Messor minor subsp. maurus Barquin Diez, 1981: 81.
 * Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated).
 * Type-localities: Spain: Canary Is, Bejano (Cabrera), Canary Is, Tenerife, Medano (Cabrera), Algeria: Taourit (Nadig), Tunisia: Kairouan (F. Santschi), Tunisia: Sousse (F. Santschi).
 * Type-depository: NHMB.
 * [First available use of Messor instabilis st. minor var. maura Santschi, 1923f: 325 (w.q.) SPAIN (Canary Is), ALGERIA, TUNISIA; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
 * [Unresolved junior primary homonym of Messor sublaeviceps var. maurus Santschi, 1927c: 244 (Bolton, 1995b: 255).]
 * As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1927d: 248; Wheeler, W.M. 1927g: 103; Bernard, 1948: 139; Wellenius, 1955: 5; Báez & Ortega, 1978: 190.
 * Subspecies of minor: Hohmann, et al. 1993: 152; Bolton, 1995b: 255.
 * Distribution: Algeria, Spain (Canary Is), Tunisia.