Messor ferreri

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

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Messor ferreri Collingwood, 1993 valid

Messor ferreri Collingwood, 1993a: 229, figs. 13-15 (w.) KENYA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Kenya: E face Mt Elgon, 2200 m., 23.vii.1988 (H.J. Bremer). Primary type depository: ZSBS. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 3 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: NHRS, WMLC, ZSBS.

Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 254; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 212.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Collingwood, C. A. 1993a. Description of the host ant of Cossyphodinus bremeri Ferrer sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Pp. 229-231 in: Ferrer, J.; Collingwood, C. A. 1993. New species of Cossyphodinus from Africa (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) and description of the host ant Messor ferreri sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Entomofauna 14:221-232. PDF
Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF

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