Messor concolor

The biology of this species is poorly known. Workers were collected at midday, in the dry riverbed located in Imbros Gorge. Area was overgrown by phrygana. Most probably, as in all Cretan Messor species, nest was located in soil (Salata & Bororiec, 2019). Pashaei Rad et al. (2018) found this species in Iran on parkland ground in a moderate rainfall area.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Greece.

Nomenclature

 * . Messor semirufus var. concolor Santschi, 1927c: 229.
 * [First available use of Messor barbarus subsp. semirufus var. concolor Emery, 1908e: 448 (s.w.m.) SYRIA, GREECE (Crete I.); unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
 * As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1915h: 1; Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1916: 170; Emery, 1921f: 72; Santschi, 1921a: 110.
 * Subspecies of semirufus: Baroni Urbani, 1964a: 1; Hamann & Klemm, 1976: 671.
 * Junior synonym of semirufus: Baroni Urbani, 1974: 227.
 * Junior synonym of wasmanni: Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 322; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 21; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2013: 385 (in text).
 * Status as species: Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, H. 1981: 143; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 54; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 271 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 253; Markó & Csösz, 2002: 116; Paknia, et al. 2008: 154; Vonshak, et al. 2009: 42; Lapeva-Gjonova, et al. 2010: 15; Legakis, 2011: 10; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 513; Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 134; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 46; Salata & Borowiec, 2019a: 56 (redescription).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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 * Borowiec L., and S. Salata. 2012. Ants of Greece - Checklist, comments and new faunistic data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus 23(4): 461-563.
 * Emery, C.. "Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. (Hym.) Teil III. Messor, Goniomma, Oxyopomyrmex." Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1908 (1908): 437-465.
 * Emery, C.. "Escursioni zoologiche del Dr. Enrico Festa nell'Isola di Rodi. XII. Formiche." Bollettino del Museo di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparatadella Reale Università di Torino 30 (1915): 1-7.
 * Hamann H. H. F., and W. Klemm. 1976. Ergebnisse der von Dr. O. Paget und Dr. E. Kritscher auf Rhodos durchgeführten zoologischen Exkursionen. XVI. Formicidae. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 80: 669-679.
 * Lapeva-Gjonova A., and K. Kiran. 2012. Ant fauna (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Strandzha (Istranca) Mountain and adjacent Black Sea coast. North-western journal of Zoology 8(1): 72-84.
 * Legakis Collection Database
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 * Pashaei Rad S., B. Taylor, R. Torabi, E. Aram, G. Abolfathi, R. Afshari, F. Borjali, M. Ghatei, F. Hediary, F. Jazini, V. Heidary Kiah, Z. Mahmoudi, F. Safariyan, and M. Seiri. 2018. Further records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 64(2): 145-159.
 * Salata S., and L. Borowiec. 2018. Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Greek ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom Entomology 27: 1-51.
 * Salata S., and L. Borowiec. 2019. Preliminary contributions toward a revision of Greek Messor Forel, 1890 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 43: 52-67.
 * Santschi, F.. "Revision des Messor du groupe instabilis Sm. (Hymenopt.)." Boletín de la Real Sociedad española de Historia natural (Madrid) 27 (1927): 225-250.
 * 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.
 * Wheeler W. M. and W. M. Mann. 1916. The ants of the Phillips Expedition to Palestine during 1914. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60: 167-174.