Messor capensis schencki

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

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Messor capensis schencki Wheeler, 1922 junior synonym of current valid taxon Messor capensis (Mayr, 1862)

Messor capensis var. schencki Wheeler, 1922: 805 (w.) NAMIBIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Namibia (“German Southwest Africa”): Great Namaland, Bethanien (Schenck). Primary type depository: unknown (presumed lost, not found in MHNG (Bolton, 1982: 345)).

[First available use of Messor barbarus capensis schenki Forel, 1910e; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Arnold, 1920a: 410; Emery, 1921c: 70; Emery, 1922d: 99; Stitz, 1923: 150.
Junior synonym of Messor capensis: Bolton, 1982: 345; Bolton, 1995b: 257.

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
Emery, C. 1922d. Messor barbarus (L.). Appunti de sinonimia e di sistematica. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 54:92-99. 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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