Messor platyceras rubella

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Messor platyceras rubella Crawley, 1920 junior synonym of current valid taxon Messor platyceras Crawley, 1920

Messor platyceras var. rubella Crawley, 1920a: 164 (s.w.m.) IRAN. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype male. Type-locality: Iran (“NW Persia”): 4000 ft, 1919 (P.A. Buxton). Type-depository: BMNH (perhaps also OXUM).

Junior synonym of Messor clivorum: Emery, 1921b: 210 (footnote); Bolton, 1995b: 256 (error)
Junior synonym of Messor structor: Dlussky et al., 1990: 224; Bolton, 1995b: 257; Radchenko, 2016: 171.
Junior synonym of Messor platyceras: Khalili-Moghadam et al., 2019: 173

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Crawley, W. C. 1920a. Ants from Mesopotamia and north-west Persia. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 32:162-166. PDF
Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S.; Zabelin, S. I. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. [In Russian.]. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1921b. Formiche raccolte a Budrum (Anatolia) da Raffaele Varriale, Cap. medico nella R. Marina. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 49[=(3)9]:208-218. PDF
Khalili-Moghadam, A.; Borowiec, L.; Nemati, A. 2019. New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari Province of Iran with taxonomic comments. Polish Journal of Entomology 88 (2):163-182. 10.2478/pjen-2019-0013 PDF
Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.

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