Messor aedificator (Schilling, 1839) junior synonym of current valid taxon Messor structor (Latreille, 1798)
Formica aedificator Schilling, 1839: 56 (w.) POLAND. Palearctic.
Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Poland (no further data) (perhaps P.S. Schilling). Primary type depository: unknown. Type notes: 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1936: 243, all Schilling’s material went to an insect dealer in Breslau (= Wroclaw), in 1845; it has since disappeared.
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