Messor picturatus Santschi, 1927

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, AbdulAziz M. A., Georgiadis, Christos, Nasser, Mohamed G. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2024, Filling gaps in global myrmecology: ants of the Kingdom of Bahrain (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Journal of Natural History 58 (41 - 44), pp. 1705-1786 : 1744

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2024.2388791

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14248721

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D9FD3B-FFBC-FF8B-FE24-FC14ACAEFACE

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Messor picturatus Santschi, 1927
status

 

Messor picturatus Santschi, 1927 View in CoL

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Messor sublaeviceps var. picturatus Santschi, 1927, p. 243 View in CoL (w.q.) Algeria. Palaearctic.

Diagnosis

Worker. This species matches the description of ebeninus in all respects but can be easily diagnosed by the following characters: dorsum of head completely sculptured to posterior margin of head and general appearance dull; posterior margin of head without setae or with one pair; eyes smaller with fewer ommatidia in the longest row; strongly sculptured mesosoma.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Messor

Loc

Messor picturatus Santschi, 1927

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, AbdulAziz M. A., Georgiadis, Christos, Nasser, Mohamed G. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. 2024
2024
Loc

Messor sublaeviceps var. picturatus

Santschi F 1927: 243
1927
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