Messor regalis sculpturatus

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

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Messor regalis sculpturatus (Stitz, 1916) junior synonym of current valid taxon Messor regalis (Emery, 1892)

Cratomyrmex sculpturatus Stitz, 1916: 377, fig. 2 (w.) CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 41 syntype workers. Primary type localities: 28 workers Congo (“French Congo”): Fort Possel-Fort Crampel, xi.1910 (Schubotz) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 802; no lectotype designated), 13 workers Congo (“French Congo”): Chûtes de la Nana, nr Fort Crampel, 7.xi.1910 (Haberer). Primary type depository: MNHU.

Status as species: Emery, 1921c: 43.
Subspecies of Messor regalis: Santschi, 1920d: 378 (in text); Wheeler, 1922: 802
Junior synonym of Messor regalis: Bolton, 1982: 352; Bolton, 1995b: 257.

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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.
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Santschi, F. 1920d. Formicides africains et américains nouveaux. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 88:361-390. PDF
Stitz, H. 1916. Formiciden. Ergebnisse der Zweiten Deutschen Zentral-Afrika Expedition 1:369-405.
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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