Messor barbarus (Linnaeus)
 Miscellaneous list  Type location Morocco
(Formica barbara, Linnaeus, 1767: 962, worker; Mayr, 1861: 67,
queen & male) - no images on Antweb (January 2015)
junior synonyms
binodis (Formica binodis,
Fabricius, 1763: 413, worker; synonymy F Smith, 1858b: 162) from Egypt
- no images on Antweb (January 2015)
juvenilis (Formica juvenilis, Fabricius,
1804: 405, worker; synonymy F Smith, 1858b: 162) - no images on Antweb
(January 2015)
megacephala (Formica
megacephala, Leach, 1825: 292, all forms; synonymy Mayr, 1863: 395)
from France - no images on Antweb (January 2015)
ambiguus (Santschi, 1925g: 342, worker; synonymy
Collingwood, 1978: 68) from Tunisia - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0913160
nigriceps (Santschi, 1925g: 341, worker & queen;
synonymy Collingwood, 1978:
68) - from Spain - very dark form - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0913162
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subspecies
gallaoides (Santschi, 1929e: 141, major worker) from
Morocco - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0913163
mediosanguineus (Donisthorpe, 1946a: 53, major &
minor workers) from Turkey - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0900484
nigricans (Santschi, 1929e: 142, queen) from Morocco
- no images on Antweb (January 2015)
politus (Karavaiev, 1912a: 6, major & minor
workers - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0907728;
junior synonym dentiscapus,
Forel, 1909e: 371; Finzi, 1930b: 15, worker; synonymy Bolton, 1995:
253 - no images on Antweb (January 2015)) from Algeria
santschii (Forel, 1905b: 176,
worker; Forel, 1907b: 204, queen & male; Emery, 1908e: 447, worker;
Karavaiev, 1912a: 6, queen & male) from Tunisia - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0907712.
Note
- in the "Ants of Egypt" study, I have
removed Messor barbarus r. sahlbergi (Forel, 1913d:
428, worker) from Egypt, to a subspecies of Messor arenarius.
rufitarsis (Myrmica rufitarsis,
Foerster, 1850b: 485, worker; synonymy Roger, 1863b: 29) from Algeria
- junior synonym of Messor structor:
Agosti & Collingwood (1987a: 54)
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 Linnaeus' (1767)
description is at  . Latreille (1802c) gave
a description of binodis,
this is at  . Mayr (1861: 66) gave a key to workers,
queens and males, the worker key is at  .
Emery (1878b) gave a description, this is at  and  . Emery (1908e) gave a group description of
the barbarus group, this is at  [the illustration referred to, Fig. 4, is
of M. capitatus nigra]. Emery (1908e) gave a key, this is at  . Emery (1908e) gave a description of barbarus
s.s., this is at  . Bondroit (1918: 152)
gave an illustrated description, this is at  .
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Extralimital in Bolton (1982) but recorded from -
Sudan - André (1884b: 245), collected by Dr Paolo
Magretti;
Ethiopia - Emery (1881a), Kaka, collector Antinori
worker; like the variety from Bogos. Forel (1894b), Ethiopia south,
collector Ilg, workers. Emery (1899a), Badditu-Dime, collector Bottego,
1 queen. Forel (1904b) from Godo & Burka, collector Kachovskij, 1
queen, 17.vi.1898; an unlikely identification is Messor barbarus
punctatus (type location India; now a junior synonym of instabilis),
in list of Wheeler (1922) from Abuker, Dire Daua & Hara, collector
Kristensen.
Somalia - Emery (1892a), Mogadishu, Obbia, Uebi
& Ogaden, collectors L Bricchetti Robecchi & Prof Pavesi,
workers.
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  The
photomontage of the nigriceps holotype is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0905146
This appears to be close to the original type description as being dark
in colour. |
 WORKER - Emery (1878b)
noted the form from Abyssinia
[Ethiopia], collected by Beccari (from Keren, also from Bogos by
Antinori; Emery, 1877b: 373) had the red parts generally somewhat dull;
pronotum subtly rugose, propodeal teeth quite accentuated. Neither the
form nor the finding were cited by Bolton (1982) - Mayr's (1961) key
separated "Aphaenogaster barbara as having no teeth on the
propodeum (metanotum). The
photomontage of santschii is collated from http://mcz-28168.oeb.harvard.edu/mcz/FMPro?-DB=Image.fm&-Lay=web&-Format=images.htm&Species_ID=23332&-Find
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Oxford University Museum
specimens
Messor barbarus
B Taylor det.
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Tunisia
T Stalling
MYR0636
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12.1.2010
Nabeul
36°25'04.1"N
10°25'55"E |
Jadidi
100 m
media worker |
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Messor barbarus
B Taylor det.
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Tunisia
T Stalling
MYR0684 |
12.iv.2010
Zaghouan
36°17'31.1" N
09°48'32.6" E |
El-Fahs
340 m
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1
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 The photomontage is
of
a large media worker from Tunisia, collector Thomas Stalling
(MYR0636)
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 The photomontage is
of
a smaller media worker from Tunisia, collector Thomas Stalling
(MYR0684)
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