Messor clivorum

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation.

Nomenclature

 * . Aphaenogaster (Messor) structor var. clivorum Ruzsky, 1905b: 735 (s.w.) RUSSIA, MOLDOVA.
 * Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of Steiner, Csösz, et al. 2018: supplementary material, 6).
 * Type-locality: Russia: Kazanskaya gub., Chistopodsk, 8.vii.1892 (Ruzsky?).
 * [Note: other localities cited in original description: Russia: Samarsk, Buzuluksk, vi.1893 (Gordyagin), Russia: Stavropol, 12.vi.1899 (no collector’s name), Russia: Simbirsk, Lyakhovki, 1894 (no collector’s name), Moldova: Bessarabia, Shalbolats, 1904 (Brauner).]
 * Type-depositories: MSNG (lectotype); ZMUM (original syntypes).
 * Emery, 1921b: 211 (footnote) (q.); Karavaiev, 1927a: 286 (q.m.).
 * Combination in Messor: Emery, 1908e: 454.
 * As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1923f: 320; Karavaiev, 1927a: 286; Karavaiev, 1927c: 261 (in key); Karavaiev, 1934: 108.
 * Subspecies of barbarus: Emery, 1908e: 454; Forel, 1910a: 24; Forel, 1911d: 347; Emery, 1912f: 96; Emery, 1915h: 1; Santschi, 1917e: 92; Emery, 1921f: 70; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 136.
 * Junior synonym of structor: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 224; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 114; Arakelian, 1994: 38; Bolton, 1995b: 253; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 139; Legakis, 2011: 11; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 20; Radchenko, 2016: 171.
 * Status as species: Emery, 1921b: 210 (footnote); Schkaff, 1925: 274; Arnol'di, 1948: 211 (in list); Dlussky, 1962: 179; Tarbinsky, 1976: 56 (redescription); Hamann & Klemm, 1976: 671; Arnol'di, 1977b: 1644 (in key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 537 (in key); He & Song, 2009: 722; Steiner, Csösz, et al. 2018: supplementary material, 6.
 * Distribution: China, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus sevani.