Messor dentatus

Pashaei Rad et al. (2018) found this species in Iran on the ground in a dry to very dry farmland area.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Iran, Israel, Turkey.

Nomenclature

 * . Messor semirufus var. dentatus Santschi, 1927c: 228.
 * Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated).
 * Type-locality: Israel: Jerusalem (E. Schmitz).
 * Type-depository: MHNG.
 * [First available use of Messor barbarus subsp. semirufus var. dentata Forel, 1910a: 10 (w.q.m.) ISRAEL; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
 * Menozzi, 1933b: 54 (q.).
 * As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1911d: 346; Emery, 1921f: 72; Emery, 1922c: 97.
 * Subspecies of semirufus: Menozzi, 1933b: 53; Aktaç, 1977: 120.
 * Junior synonym of semirufus: Baroni Urbani, 1974: 227.
 * Status as species: Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, H. 1981: 143; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 54; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 271 (in key); Kugler, J. 1988: 257; Bolton, 1995b: 253; Petrov, 2006: 92 (in key); Paknia, et al. 2008: 154; Vonshak, et al. 2009: 42; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 19; Borowiec, L. 2014: 104; Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 134; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2020: 10.
 * Distribution: Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Aktaç, N.. "Studies on the myrmecofauna of Turkey I. Ants of Siirt, Bodrum and Trabzon." Istanbul Universitesi Fen Fakultesi Mecmuasi. Seri B 41 (1977): 115-135.
 * Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
 * Forel A. 1910. Glanures myrmécologiques. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 54: 6-32.
 * Forel A. 1911. Fourmis nouvelles ou intéressantes. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 47: 331-400.
 * Izhaki I., B. Idelovich, R. Laster, and Y. Ofer. 2009. The impact of macro- vs micro environmental factors on the structure of ant communities inhabiting East-Mediterranean Aleppo pine forests. Israel Journal of Entomology 39: 129-146.
 * Kugler J. 1988. The zoogeography of Israel. 9. The zoogeography of social insects of Israel and Sinai. Monographiae biologicae 62: 251-275.
 * Legakis Collection Database
 * Paknia O., A. Radchenko, H. Alipanah, and M. Pfeiffer. 2008. A preliminary checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Iran. Myrmecological News 11: 151-159.
 * 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.
 * Santschi, F.. "Revision des Messor du groupe instabilis Sm. (Hymenopt.)." Boletín de la Real Sociedad española de Historia natural (Madrid) 27 (1927): 225-250.
 * Tohme G. 1996. Formicidae. Etude de la diversité biologique n° 4 . Ministère de lAgriculture à Beyrouth (Eds.). P85-87.
 * Tohme G., and H. Tohme. 2014. Nouvelles liste des especes de fourmis du Liban (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea). Lebanese Science Journal 15(1): 133-141.
 * 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.
 * Vonshak M., and A. Ionescu-Hirsch. 2009. A checklist of the ants of Israel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 39: 33-55.