Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Messor barbarus subsp. wasmanni Krausse, 1910 PDF: 524 (in text) (w.) ITALY (Sardinia). Palearctic. Primary type information: Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated). Type-localities: Italy: Sardinia, Cagliari, Orisanto, Asuni, 1909 (
A.H. Krausse-Heldrungen). Type-depository: unknown. Type notes: Locality data from
Krausse, 1911a PDF: 15.
AntCat AntWiki Taxonomic history
Status as species:
Casevitz-Weulersse, 1990b: 156 (in key);
Collingwood, 1993b PDF: 194;
Bolton, 1995b: 258;
Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 322;
Bračko, 2006 PDF: 137;
Petrov, 2006 PDF: 92 (in key);
Bračko, 2007 PDF: 17;
Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 489;
Karaman, 2011b PDF: 40;
Legakis, 2011 PDF: 11;
Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 516;
Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 21;
Borowiec & Salata, 2013 PDF: 385 (in text);
Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 114;
Bračko et al., 2014 PDF: 14;
Lebas et al., 2016: 300;
Borowiec & Salata, 2018a 10.5281/zenodo.1481802 PDF: 6;
Salata & Borowiec, 2018c 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF: 46;
Salata & Borowiec, 2019a 10.3906/zoo-1809-41 PDF: 66.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Asia: Iran,
Israel,
Lebanon,
Oman,
Syria,
Turkey Europe: Bulgaria,
Croatia,
France,
Greece,
Italy,
Macedonia,
Malta,
Montenegro,
Romania,
Slovenia Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Palearctic
Distribution Notes:
1 locality in Coastal SLO
Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 5 times found in Ruderal, 4 times found in oak forest, 1 times found in open dry rocky, 2 times found in pine forest and roadsides, 2 times found in clay wasteland, 2 times found in seashore with frygana and Pinus trees, 1 times found in deciduous gallery forest, 1 times found in olive plantations, 1 times found in Xerothermous hill, open, 1 times found in dry meadow, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 16 times on ground, 3 times Nest open in soil, 4 times under stone, 1 times on path in field, 1 times nbp, 2 times ground nest, 2 times foraging trail, 2 times Foraging, 1 times path, 1 times Open nest, 1 times on road, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 9 times Hand, 9 times search.
Elevations: collected from 3 - 800 meters, 190 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1946-10-01 00:00:00.0 and 2022-07-14 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: syntype of Messor semirufus concolor: casent0913219, casent0913220; Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Messor instabilis concolor cretaeus: casent0913173, casent0913174
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