Messor piceus - AntCat

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

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Messor piceus Stitz, 1923 valid

Messor piceus Stitz, 1923: 150 (w.q.) SOUTH AFRICA, NAMIBIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 6 syntype workers, 2 syntype queens. Primary type localities: 6 workers, 1 queen South Africa: Transvaal (Ulrich), 1 queen Namibia (“German Southwest Africa”): Farm Neudamm, 42 km. ENE Windhoek (W. Michaelsen). Primary type depository: unknown (not found in MNHU, presumed lost (Bolton, 1982: 352)).

Status as species: Bolton, 1982: 352 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 256.

Citations

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.
Stitz, H. 1923. Hymenoptera, VII. Formicidae. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Land- und Süsswasserfauna Deutsch-Südwestafrikas 2:143-167.

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