Messor rufus

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation.

Nomenclature

 * . Messor barbarus subsp. rufus Emery, 1922c: 96.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Uzbekistan: Fergana region (V. Sovinsky).
 * Type-depository: SIZK.
 * [First available use of Messor barbarus subsp. meridionalis var. rufa Karavaiev, 1910a: 272 (in text) (w.) UZBEKISTAN; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
 * Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 7 (q.m.).
 * As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1921f: 71.
 * Subspecies of minor: Santschi, 1927c: 240; Santschi, 1927d: 247.
 * Status as species: Santschi, 1923f: 326; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929b: 45; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 6; Dlussky, 1962: 179; Arnol'di, 1977b: 1642 (in key); Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, H. 1981: 147; Bolton, 1995b: 256; Schultz, R. et al. 2006: 203; Borowiec, M.L. et al. 2009: 378; Borowiec, L. 2014: 111 (see note in bibliography); Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 135.
 * Senior synonym of karawajevi: Arnol'di, 1977b: 1642 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 256; Schultz, R. et al. 2006: 203.
 * Senior synonym of similis: Santschi, 1927d: 248; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 6; Arnol'di, 1977b: 1642 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 256.
 * Material of the unavailable name karawayewi referred here by Emery, 1922c: 96; Santschi, 1927c: 240.
 * Distribution: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Syria, Uzbekistan.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus striolatus.
 * karawajevi. Messor karawajevi Tarbinsky, 1976: 59.
 * Type-material: holotype (?) worker.
 * Type-locality: “Asie”: Tergana, Padschaa (Karawayew).
 * [Note: country of type-locality in doubt; perhaps Kyrgyzstan, or perhaps Tergana = Fergana (Uzbekistan).]
 * Type-depository: NHMB.
 * [First available use of Messor barbarus st. clivorum var. karawayewi Santschi, 1917e: 92 (w.q.m.) KYRGYZSTAN; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
 * [Misspelled as karawaiewi by Emery, 1921b: 211, Emery, 1922c: 96; misspelled as karawayewi by Emery, 1921f: 70.]
 * As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1921b: 211; Emery, 1921f: 70; Emery, 1922c: 92; Santschi, 1927d: 248.
 * Material referred to rufus by Emery, 1922c: 96.
 * Junior synonym of rufus: Arnol'di, 1977b: 1642; Bolton, 1995b: 254; Schultz, R. et al. 2006: 203.
 * similis. Messor similis Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927a: 93 (in key) (w.q.m.) KYRGYZSTAN, KAZAKHSTAN, UZBEKISTAN.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-localities: Kyrgyzstan: Karasu Tal, ca 80 km. NE Namangan, Lake Sary-Chelek, Kara Alma in Kugart Tal (no collector’s name, perhaps Kuznetsov-Ugamsky), Kazakhstan: Ispaj, Uzun-Atschak, Tepar, Kizil Valley in the upper reaches of River Ugam, Koshkarata (Karatau) (no collector’s name, perhaps Kuznetsov-Ugamsky), Uzbekistan: Pskem, Aktash Mountains, Kokbel between Turlan Pass and Kazanbulak in Karatau (no collector’s name, perhaps Kuznetsov-Ugamsky).
 * Type-depository: ZMUM.
 * Synonym of the unavailable name karawayewi Santschi, 1917e: 92: Santschi, 1927d: 248.
 * Status as species: Collingwood, 1970: 375 (in text).
 * Junior synonym of karawajevi: Tarbinsky, 1976: 59.
 * Junior synonym of rufus: Santschi, 1927d: 248; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 6; Arnol'di, 1977b: 1642 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 257.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
 * Guénard B., and R. R. Dunn. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3558: 1-77.
 * Schultz, R., A. G. Radchenko, and B. Seifert. "A critical checklist of the ants of Kyrgyzstan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8 (2006): 201-207.
 * 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.