Messor maculifrons

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

Nomenclature

 * . Messor semirufus var. maculifrons Santschi, 1927c: 228.
 * Type-material: 21 syntype workers.
 * Type-localities: 20 workers Turkey (“Syria”): Alexandretta (= Hatay Prov., Iskenderun) (Geade), 1 worker Caucasus (no further data) (Karawayew).
 * Type-depository: NHMB.
 * [First available use of Messor barbarus st. semirufus var. maculifrons Santschi, 1917e: 91 (w.) TURKEY, CAUCASUS; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
 * [Note: the Caucasus locality is probably Georgia (Tbilisi), as recorded in Santschi, 1927c: 228.]
 * As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1921f: 72; Emery, 1922c: 97.
 * Subspecies of semirufus: Finzi, 1936: 159.
 * Junior synonym of semirufus: Baroni Urbani, 1974: 227.
 * Status as species: Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, H. 1981: 143; Bolton, 1995b: 255; Vonshak, et al. 2009: 42; Borowiec, L. 2014: 108; Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 134.
 * Distribution: Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey.

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.
 * Finzi, B.. "Risultati scientifici della spedizione di S. A. S. il Principe Alessandro della Torre e Tasso nell'Egitto e peninsola del Sinai. XI. Formiche." Bulletin de la Société Entomologique d'Egypte 20 (1936): 155-210.
 * Santschi, F.. "Races et variétés nouvelles du Messor barbarus L." Bulletin de la Société d' Histoire naturelle de l' Afrique du Nord 8 (1917): 89-94.
 * Santschi, F.. "Revision des Messor du groupe instabilis Sm. (Hymenopt.)." Boletín de la Real Sociedad española de Historia natural (Madrid) 27 (1927): 225-250.
 * Tohme G. 1996. Formicidae. Etude de la diversité biologique n° 4 . Ministère de lAgriculture à Beyrouth (Eds.). P85-87.
 * Tohme G., and H. Tohme. 2014. Nouvelles liste des especes de fourmis du Liban (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea). Lebanese Science Journal 15(1): 133-141.
 * 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.