Protonym: Messor atanassovii
Authorship Atanassov, 1982: 209, figs. 1-3
Forms s.w.q.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality BULGARIA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Bulgaria: Assenovgrad, slopes of Rhodope Mts, 200 m., 28.ix.1961, no. 2189 (N. Atanassov). Primary type depository: BASS.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: >25 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens. Secondary type localities: 25 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens with same data as holotype; other paratypes (numbers not stated) Bulgaria: Dagore Village, nr. Stara Zagora, 25.vii.1961, no. 2183 (N. Atanassov), Bulgaria: Belosem Village, Plovdiv Distr., 20.vii.1961, no. 2178 (N. Atanossov). Secondary type depositories: BASS, RASM.
Type notes Salata et al., 2023: 110, say “location of the type material is unknown”, but some potential paratypes (“no. 2183”), were located, lacking other data, in NMSB.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Messor atanassovii Species Valid Original combination