Messor rufitarsis

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Messor rufitarsis (Foerster, 1850) unresolved junior homonym, junior synonym of current valid taxon Messor barbarus (Linnaeus, 1767)

Myrmica rufitarsis Foerster, 1850b: 485 (w.) ALGERIA. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Algeria: Algiers (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: unknown. Type notes: 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 78, Foerster’s formicid types are in MNHU, but Seifert & Schultz, 2009b: 271, state that “According to our own search in German collections type material of Förster is completely destroyed”. 3) However, perhaps specimens remain in MNHN as Foerster, 1850b (p. 486) thanks “Leon Fairmaire in Paris” for the specimens.

[Unresolved junior secondary homonym of Messor rufitarsis Fabricius, 1804 (Bolton, 1995b: 256).]
Combination in Aphaenogaster: Roger, 1863b: 29.
Junior synonym of Messor barbarus: Mayr, 1861: 66 (in key); Roger, 1863b: 29; Mayr, 1863a: 395; Emery & Forel, 1879: 461; Emery, 1891c: 12; Dalla Torre, 1893: 99; Emery, 1921c: 69; Bolton, 1995b: 256.
Status as species: Nezhad et al., 2012: 68 (error).
[Note: Nezhad et al., 2012, perhaps confuse Messor rufitarsis Foerster, 1850b with Messor rufitarsis Fabricius, 1804; or more probably a misidentification.]

Obsolete combinations

Myrmica rufitarsis

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1891c. Exploration scientifique de la Tunisie. Zoologie. - Hyménoptères. Révision critique des fourmis de la Tunisie. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, iii + 21 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Emery, C.; Forel, A. 1879. Catalogue des Formicides d'Europe. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 5:441-481. PDF
Foerster, A. 1850b. Eine Centurie neuer Hymenopteren. Zweite Dekade. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 7:485-500.
Horn, W.; Kahle, I. 1935. Sammlungen, welche ihren Eigentümer gewechselt haben [Part 1]. Entomologische Beihefte aus Berlin-Dahlem 2:1-160.
Mayr, G. 1861. Die europäischen Formiciden. Nach der analytischen Methode bearbeitet. Wien: C. Gerolds Sohn, 80 pp. PDF
Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
Nezhad, S. H.; Rad, S. P.; Firouzi, F.; Agosti, D. 2012. New and additional records for the ant fauna from Iran (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zoology in the Middle East 55:65-74. PDF
Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
Seifert, B.; Schultz, R. 2009b. A taxonomic revision of the Formica rufibarbis Fabricius, 1793 group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 12:255-272. PDF

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