Species: Messor wasmanni

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

[Also described as new by Krausse, 1911a PDF: 15.]

Finzi, 1929 PDF: 83 (q.); Finzi, 1933 PDF: 163 (m.)

As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Krausse, 1912c PDF: 164; Emery, 1915a: 249; Emery, 1916a PDF: 142; Santschi, 1917e PDF: 90; Emery, 1921c PDF: 71; Menozzi, 1921 PDF: 26; Emery, 1922d PDF: 94.

Subspecies of Messor barbarus: Emery, 1912f PDF: 97.

Subspecies of Messor semirufus: Santschi, 1927d PDF: 230; Finzi, 1928c PDF: 788; Finzi, 1929 PDF: 82; Finzi, 1930d PDF: 312; Finzi, 1933 PDF: 163; Zimmermann, 1935 PDF: 17.

Subspecies of Messor meridionalis: Bondroit, 1920b PDF: 305; Baroni Urbani, 1964b PDF: 30 (footnote); Baroni Urbani, 1969e PDF: 331; Baroni Urbani, 1968e PDF: 434; Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 59.

Junior synonym of Messor semirufus: Bernard, 1967a PDF: 147; Baroni Urbani, 1974a PDF: 227.

Junior synonym of Messor meridionalis: Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 68; Poldi et al., 1995: 3.

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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Species: Messor wasmanni Krausse, 1910

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