Messor buettikeri

Identification
Collingwood and Agosti (1996) - HW 1.64; EL/HW 0.24-0.26. A smooth-sculptured, black, large-eyed species. A further character is the postpetiole which has the ventral surface flat without an anterior projection.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Saudi Arabia. Palaearctic Region: Iraq, Kuwait.

Nomenclature

 * . Messor buettikeri Collingwood, 1985: 249, fig. 22 (w.q.m.) SAUDI ARABIA.
 * Type-material: holotype worker, paratype workers, paratype queens, paratype males (numbers not stated).
 * Type-localities: holotype Saudi Arabia: Wadi Khumra, 10.ii.1978 (W. Büttiker); paratypes with same data, paratypes Saudi Arabia: Khashm Khafs, 25.i.1981 (W. Büttiker).
 * Type-depository: NHMB (perhaps also in WMLC).
 * Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 253; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 316; Borowiec, L. 2014: 103.
 * Distribution: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Abdul-Rassoul M. S., H. B. Ali, and R. SH. Augul. 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.
 * Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
 * Collingwood, C. A., and Donat Agosti. "Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (Part 2)." Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15 (1996): 300-385.