Messor denticornis brunni

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

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Messor denticornis brunni Forel, 1910 junior synonym of current valid taxon Messor denticornis Forel, 1910

Messor denticornis var. brunni Forel, 1910f: 444 (w.) NAMIBIA, SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Namibia (“SW Africa”): (no further data) (Brunn) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 806; no lectotype designated), South Africa: Cape Prov., Steckstown (Wartmann). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0907747.

Subspecies of Messor denticornis: Arnold, 1920a: 413; Emery, 1921c: 74; Wheeler, 1922: 806.
Junior synonym of Messor denticornis: Bolton, 1982: 349; Bolton, 1995b: 253.

Citations

Arnold, G. 1920a. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part IV. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:403-578. PDF
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.
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Forel, A. 1910f. Note sur quelques fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 54:421-458. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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