Messor atanassovii

The status of this taxon is uncertain and it requires further taxonomic study (Borowiec, 2014).

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Bulgaria, Greece.

Nomenclature

 * . Messor atanassovii Atanassov, 1982: 209, figs. 1-3 (s.w.q.) BULGARIA.
 * Type-material: holotype worker, 25+ paratype workers, 2 paratype queens.
 * Type-locality: holotype Bulgaria: Assenovgrad, slopes of Rhodope Mts, 200 m., 28.ix.1961, no. 2189 (N. Atanassov); paratypes: 25 workers, 2 queens with same data; other paratypes (numbers not stated) Bulgaria: Dagore Village, nr. Stara Zagora, 25.vii.1961, no. 2183 (N. Atanassov), Bulgaria: Belosem Village, Plovdiv Distr., 20.vii.1961, no. 2178 (N. Atanossov).
 * Type-depositories: BASS (holotype); BASS, RASM.
 * [Note: atanassovii incorrectly regarded as an unavailable name by Baroni Urbani, Aktaç & Camiltepe, 1989: 300 (Bolton, 1995b: 252).]
 * Status as species: Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 119; Bolton, 1995b: 252; Lapeva-Gjonova, et al. 2010: 14; Borowiec, L. 2014: 102.
 * Distribution: Bulgaria.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Atanassov N. 1982. Neue Ameisen aus den Gattungen Messor und Cataglyphis (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) für die Fauna Bulgariens. Waldhygiene 14: 209-214.
 * Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
 * Czechowski W., A. Radchenko, W. Czechowska and K. Vepsäläinen. 2012. The ants of Poland with reference to the myrmecofauna of Europe. Fauna Poloniae 4. Warsaw: Natura Optima Dux Foundation, 1-496 pp
 * Lapeva-Gjonova, L., V. Antonova, A. G. Radchenko, and M. Atanasova. "Catalogue of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Bulgaria." ZooKeys 62 (2010): 1-124.