Messor clypeatus

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Kazakhstan.

Nomenclature

 * . Messor similis var. clypeatus Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927a: 93 (in key) (w.) KAZAKHSTAN.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Kazakhstan?: “Central Asia”: Hungersteppe: railway stations Obrutschevo and Syr-Darjinskaya” (no collector’s name, perhaps Kuznetsov-Ugamsky).
 * Type-depository: ZMUM.
 * As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1927d: 248.
 * Subspecies of rufus: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 9.
 * Status as species: Arnol'di, 1977b: 1646 (in key); Dlussky, 1981a: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 253.
 * Distribution: Kazakhstan.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Mokrousov M. V., and V.A. Zryanin. 2015. Materials on the early spring wasps and ants fauna of Uzbekistan (Hymenoptera: Vespomorpha: Chrysidoidea, Scolioidea, Pompiloidea, Vespoidea, Apoidea [Spheciformes], Formicoidea). Entomological research Russia and its neighboring regions 5: 36–48.