Protonym: Messor buettikeri
Authorship Collingwood, 1985: 249, fig. 22
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality SAUDI ARABIA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type localities: Saudi Arabia: Wadi Khumra, 10.ii.1978 (W. Büttiker). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps NHMB or WMLC).
Secondary type information Secondary type material: paratype workers, paratype queens, paratype males (numbers not stated). Secondary type localities: paratypes with same data as holotype, paratype queens Saudi Arabia: Khashm Khafs, 25.i.1981 (W. Büttiker). Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps NHMB or WMLC).
Type notes In this publication much type material was referred to NHMB but was apparently never deposited there.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Messor buettikeri Species Valid Original combination