Messor denticornis

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Messor denticornis Forel, 1910 valid

Messor denticornis Forel, 1910e: 14 (w.q.m.) NAMIBIA, SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated), 1 syntype male. Primary type localities: Namibia (“German Southwest Africa”): Lüderitz Bay, 1903 (L. Schultze) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 806; no lectotype designated), South Africa: Little Namaland, Kamaggas (L. Schultze), South Africa: Little Namaland, Steinkopf (L. Schultze). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MHNG. Primary type specimens: CASENT0900465, CASENT0907746.

Status as species: Arnold, 1920a: 411; Emery, 1921c: 74; Wheeler, 1922: 806; Stitz, 1923: 148; Bolton, 1982: 349 (redescription); Marsh, 1986b: 341; Bolton, 1995b: 253.
Senior synonym of Messor denticornis brunni: Bolton, 1982: 349; Bolton, 1995b: 253.
Senior synonym of Messor denticornis parvidens: Bolton, 1982: 349; Bolton, 1995b: 253.

Junior synonyms

Messor denticornis brunni Forel, 1910
Messor denticornis parvidens Forel, 1910

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. 1910e. Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 von Dr. Leonhard Schultze. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. D) Formicidae. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16:1-30. PDF
Marsh, A. C. 1986b. Checklist, biological notes and distribution of ants in the central Namib Desert. Madoqua 14:333-344. PDF
Stitz, H. 1923. Hymenoptera, VII. Formicidae. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Land- und Süsswasserfauna Deutsch-Südwestafrikas 2:143-167.
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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