Protonym: Messor barbarus r. ruginodis
Authorship Stitz, 1916: 374, fig. 1
Forms w.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality CONGO
Primary type information Primary type material: 15 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Congo (“French Congo”): Fort Crampel, xi.1910, 6.i.1911 (Schubotz). Primary type depository: unknown (not in MNHU, presumed lost (Bolton, 1982: 353)).
Type notes 1) Stitz, 1916: 371, gives depository as Zoological Museum Hamburg, which was destroyed in World War II. 2) Residual type material perhaps in ZMUH.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Messor barbarus ruginodis Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Messor ruginodis Stitz, 1916
Original combination
Messor ruginodis Species Valid