Messor aralocaspius

Distribution
This taxon was described from the Russian Federation. It is also known from Turkmenistan.

It is found in South East Europe, Saudi Arabia and Iraq (Abdul-Rassoul et al. 2013).

Nomenclature

 *  aralocaspius. Aphaenogaster barbara var. aralocaspia Ruzsky, 1902c: 20 (w.) RUSSIA. Karavaiev, 1910b: 63 (q.m.); Stitz, 1930: 240 (q.). Combination in Messor: Ruzsky, 1905b: 745. Subspecies of minor: Santschi, 1927c: 239. Status as species: Pisarski, 1967: 384; Pisarski, 1969b: 306; Tarbinsky, 1976: 65; Arnol'di, 1977b: 1642. Material of the unavailable name tamerlani referred here by Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 218. Current subspecies: nominal plus infumatus.

Additional References

 * Abdul-Rassoul, M.S., Ali, H.B. & Augul, R.SH. 2013. New Records of Unidentified Ants worker (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) stored in Iraqi Natural History Museum with key to Species. Adv. Biores., Vol 4 (2): 27-33.