Contents Miscellaneous ants - Israel
SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Messor
Messor meridionalis (André)
{Messor medridionalis}

Messor meridionalis (André)

return to list {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Greece (Aphaenogaster barbara var meridionalis, André, 1883b: 355, worker; Ruzsky, 1905b:747, male; raised to species in Bondroit, 1918: 155; in various synonymies but revived as species by Collingwood & Agosti, 1985: 251; query junior synonym of caducus, Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 121, in Bulgarian and not in HNS: Atanassov, N.; Dlussky, G.M. 1992. Fauna of Bulgaria. Hymenoptera, Formicidae. (In Bulgarian). Fauna Bulg. 22, 1-310.).

André's (1883b) description is at {original description}. Bondroit's (1918) description is at {original description}.

WORKER -

{Messor meridionalis major} Major - The photomontages are of specimens collected in Israel by Joshua Kugler?, 7.viii.1998, and sent to me by Armin Ionescu, Tel Aviv University.

Other images can be seen in the folder at - {original description}

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