Contents Miscellaneous ants - Iran
SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Messor
Messor concolor Thomé & Thomé

Messor concolor Thomé & Thomé

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{link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Syria (Messor barbarus ssp semirufus var concolor, Emery, 1908e: 1448; Santschi, 1927c: 229, major & minor workers & male; raised to species Thomé, G. & Thomé, H., 1981b: 143, illustrated) from Syria and Crete.


{Messor concolor} {Messor concolor}Emery's (1908e) description is at {original description}.

Egypt record - record in Wheeler & Mann (1916) from Wadi Feran, Sinai.

Note: Collingwood & Agosti (1996: 322) stated that M. concolor cotypes in the OUMNH and NHMB were "confirmed as M. wasmanni ". It seems possible, even likely, that the Crete specimens, i.e the cotypes, differ from the Syria specimens. Antweb has no images of the Krausse type of M. wasmanni.


{Messor concolor}The photomontage of a syntype large media worker (see the Torabi major below) is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0904126. Note: the label has cotype and the specimen is from Crete.


Oxford University Museum specimens

Messor concolor
B Taylor det.

Iran
O Paknia
ZMGU 558
viii.2004
Miankaleh
36°45' to 36°55'N; 53°25' to 54°05'E

8
{album}
Messor concolor
B Taylor det.
Iran
R Nafisi
09
15.x.2012
36°42'N
57°25'E
Neghab-Sabzevar-Khorasan
3521 ft
Near lake
5
{album}
Messor concolor
B Taylor det.
Iran
M Seiri
21



{album}
Messor concolor
B Taylor det.
Iran
G Abolfathi
29
26.iv.2013
33.909175°N
48.7712006°E
1587 m
Goldasht Garden,  Borujerd
hand collected
city
major & media workers
2
{album}
Messor concolor
B Taylor det.
Iran
G Abolfathi
30
06.ix.2013
33.8571216°N
48.785225°E
1533 m
Dorahi, Borujerd
hand collected
city
major & media workers
2
{album}
Messor concolor
B Taylor det.
Iran
V H Kia
48
9.v.2014
34.64°N
50.88°E
993 m
Alavi Park, Qom
hand collected
park, on tree
1855h
1
{album}
Messor concolor
B Taylor det.
Iran
R Afshari
52

14.v.2014
31.06°N
51.59°E
2066 m
Komeh, Semirom, Isfahan
hand collected
park, on ground
1655h
1
{album}

{Messor concolor major}Iran finding - the photomontages are of workers collected from Miankaleh, by Omid Paknia, August 2004.


{Messor concolor major}The photomontage is of a major worker from Iran; collector G Abdolfathi (29).


{Messor concolor major}The photomontage is of a large media worker from Iran; collector R Nafisi (09).


{Messor concolor major}The photomontage is of a media worker from Iran; collector G Abdolfathi (29).


{Messor concolor minor}Minor specimen

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