Messor luridus

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Turkey.

Nomenclature

 * . Messor luridus Santschi, 1927c: 245.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “several”).
 * Type-locality: Turkey: Biledjek, nr Brussa (= Bursa) (K. Escherich).
 * Type-depository: MSNG.
 * [First available use of Stenamma (Messor) barbarum subsp. caducum var. lurida Emery, 1898c: 139 (w.) TURKEY; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
 * As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1908e: 448; Emery, 1921f: 72; Emery, 1922c: 97.
 * Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 255; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 19; Borowiec, L. 2014: 108 (see note in bibliography).
 * Distribution: Turkey.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus virginalis.

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.
 * Emery, C.. "Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. (Hym.) Teil III. Messor, Goniomma, Oxyopomyrmex." Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1908 (1908): 437-465.
 * Santschi, F.. "Revision des Messor du groupe instabilis Sm. (Hymenopt.)." Boletín de la Real Sociedad española de Historia natural (Madrid) 27 (1927): 225-250.