Messor reticuliventris

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: Pakistan. Palaearctic Region: Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan.

Nomenclature

 * . Messor barbarus subsp. reticuliventris Karavaiev, 1910b: 67, fig. 33 (w.) TURKMENISTAN.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Turkmenistan: Firusinka stream, nr Firusa (W. Karawajew).
 * Type-depositories: SIZK.
 * Subspecies of barbarus: Emery, 1921f: 71; Emery, 1922c: 96; Ruzsky, 1923: 5; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927a: 89 (in key); Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 16.
 * Status as species: Collingwood, 1961a: 60; Pisarski, 1967: 384; Pisarski, 1970: 307; Arnol'di, 1977b: 1644 (in key); Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 223; Bolton, 1995b: 256; Rasheed, et al. 2019: 432.
 * Distribution: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Collingwood C. A. 1961. The third Danish Expedition to Central Asia. Zoological Results 27. Formicidae (Insecta) from Afghanistan. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening 123: 51-79.
 * Dlussky G. M., O. S. Soyunov, and S. I. Zabelin. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp.
 * Karavaiev V. 1911. Ameisen aus Transkaspien und Turkestan. Tr. Rus. Entomol. Obshch. 39: 1-72.
 * Pisarski B. 1967. Fourmis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) d'Afghanistan récoltées par M. Dr. K. Lindberg. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 24: 375-425.
 * Rasheed M. T., I. Bodlah, A. G. Fareen, A. A. Wachkoo, X. Huang, and S. A. Akbar. 2019. A checklist of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Pakistan. Sociobiology 66(3): 426-439.
 * Ruzsky, M. 1923. Ants of Cheleken Island. Izv. Tomsk. Gos. Univ. 72(2nd p part: 1-6