Messor barbarus semirufus obscurior

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

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Messor barbarus semirufus obscurior Crawley, 1920 unavailable

Messor barbarus r. semirufus var. obscurior Crawley, 1920a: 164 (s.w.) IRAQ. Palearctic.

Type notes: Material included: Iraq (“Mesopotamia”): Amara, 1918 (P.A. Buxton), Iraq (“Mesopotamia”): Baghdad, 1918 (W.E. Evans); workers, deposited in OXUM and perhaps BMNH (no type status).

As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1922d: 95.
Declared as unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Bolton, 1995b: 256.
Material referred to Messor semirufus by Baroni Urbani, 1974a: 227.

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1974a. Studi sulla mirmecofauna d'Italia. XII. Le Isole Pontine. Fragmenta Entomologica 9:225-252. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Crawley, W. C. 1920a. Ants from Mesopotamia and north-west Persia. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 32:162-166. PDF
Emery, C. 1922d. Messor barbarus (L.). Appunti de sinonimia e di sistematica. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 54:92-99. PDF

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