Messor sculpturatus

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

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†Messor sculpturatus Carpenter, 1930 homonym replaced by †Messor draxil Fisher, 2025

†Messor sculpturatus Carpenter, 1930: 32, pl. 4, fig. 5; pl. 11, fig. 5 (q.) U.S.A. (Colorado, Florissant, late Eocene, Priabonian).

Primary type information: Primary type specimen: No. 2920 (MCZC). Secondary type information: Secondary type specimens: Nos. 2921 (MCZC), 10,032 (PMNH), 7850 (Princeton University), 17,017a (University of Colorado), 78,804 (USNM), 11 (Carnegie Museum).

[Junior secondary homonym of Messor regalis sculpturatus Stitz, 1916a (Bolton, 1995b: 257).]
Combination in Messor equivocal: Wheeler & Creighton, 1934: 360; Bolton, 1982: 341.
Incertae sedis in Messor: Bolton, 1995b: 257.
Status as species: Wheeler & Creighton, 1934: 360; Burnham, 1979: 111; Bolton, 1982: 341; Bolton, 1995b: 257.
Replacement name: †Messor draxil Fisher, 2025.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1982. Afrotropical species of the myrmicine ant genera Cardiocondyla, Leptothorax, Melissotarsus, Messor and Cataulacus (Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 45:307-370. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Burnham, L. 1979 ("1978"). Survey of social insects in the fossil record. Psyche (Cambridge) 85:85-133. PDF
Carpenter, F. M. 1930. The fossil ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 70:1-66. PDF
Wheeler, W. M.; Creighton, W. S. 1934. A study of the ant genera Novomessor and Veromessor. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 69:341-387. PDF

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