Protonym: Myrmica rufitarsis
Authorship Foerster, 1850b: 485
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality ALGERIA
Primary type information Type-material: holotype (?) worker. Type-locality: Algeria: Algiers (no collector’s name). Type-depository: MNHU (Horn & Kahle, 1935: 78).
Type notes 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Perhaps type-material is also in MNHN as Foerster (p, 486) thanks “Leon Fairmaire in Paris” for the specimens.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Messor rufitarsis Species Synonym
unresolved junior homonym, junior synonym of current valid taxon Messor barbarus (Linnaeus, 1767)
Myrmica rufitarsis Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Messor rufitarsis (Foerster, 1850)
Original combination