Species: Messor ebeninus

Current Valid Name:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Messor semirufus var. ebeninus Santschi, 1927d PDF: 229 (w.) SYRIA, ISRAEL. Palearctic. Primary type information: Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated). Type-localities: Syria: Berzé (G. de Kerville), Israel: Convent of the Passion (= Nazareth?) (E. Schmitz). Type-depository: MHNG. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

[First available use of Messor barbarus semirufus ebeninus Forel, 1910; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]

Finzi, 1936 PDF: 160 (q.); Tohmé, 1971 PDF: 573 (m.).

As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1913d PDF: 427; Crawley, 1920a PDF: 164; Emery, 1921c PDF: 72; Emery, 1922d PDF: 97.

Subspecies of Messor semirufus: Menozzi, 1933b PDF: 52; Finzi, 1936 PDF: 160; Santschi, 1938a PDF: 31.

Junior synonym of Messor semirufus: Baroni Urbani, 1974a PDF: 227

Status as species: Tohmé, 1971 PDF: 569 (redescription); Tohmé, 1975 PDF: 171; Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981 PDF: 142; Collingwood, 1985 PDF: 249; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a PDF: 54; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 271 (in key); Kugler, 1988 PDF: 257; Bolton, 1995b: 254; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 317; Mohamed et al., 2001 PDF: 51; Petrov, 2006 PDF: 92 (in key); Paknia et al., 2008 PDF: 155; Lush, 2009 10.1080/09397140.2009.10638357: 114; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010 PDF: 42; Collingwood et al., 2011 PDF: 426; Karaman, 2011b PDF: 37; Legakis, 2011 PDF: 10; Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 513; Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 19; Sharaf et al., 2013 PDF: 572; Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 105; Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014 PDF: 134; Sharaf et al., 2022 10.5852/ejt.2022.838.1925 PDF: 55.

// Distribution

Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Africa: Egypt
    Asia: Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates
    Europe: Montenegro
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Palearctic

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name	Status	Publication	Pages	ModsID	GoogleMaps
Messor ebininus		Mohamed, S., Zalat, S. & Fadl, H., 2001, Taxonomy of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) collected by pitfall traps from Sinai and Delta region, Egypt., Egyptian Journal of Natural History 3, pp. 40-61: 51, (download)	51	21622
Messor ebeninus		Paknia, O., Radchenko, A. & Alipanah, H., 2008, A preliminary checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Iran., Myrmecologische Nachrichten 11, pp. 151-159: 155, (download)	155	21820

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 3 times found in irrigated patch of coffee trees in village garden, 1 times found in Acacia Juniper woodland, 4 times found in riparian scrub next to banana field, 1 times found in banana field next to dry steam, 1 times found in roadside desert 7pm.

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 8 times ground forager(s), 1 times ground nest.

Collected most commonly using these methods: 3 times water traps, 1 times pitfall traps, 1 times tuna bait.

Elevations: collected from 680 - 1950 meters, 1447 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1977-11-28 00:00:00.0 and 2017-11-18 00:00:00.0

Type specimens: syntype of Messor ebeninus: casent0907734, casent0907735; Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Messor barbarus semirufus ebenina: focol0690, focol0209-1, focol0209-2, focol0764-1, focol0764-2, casent0901472

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Species: Messor ebeninus Santschi, 1927

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