Messor intermedius Santschi

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Type location Syria (Messor barbarus subsp. semirufus André v. intermedia n.var., Forel, 1910a:10 workers; Messor semirufus André v. intermedius Forel, Santschi, 1927c: 229, workers) Doumar, Gadeau de Kerville - see below.

Raised to species: Arnol'di, 1977b: 1640 (in key). See also: Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981:142; Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 211.

Forel's (1910a) description is at . Tohmé & Tohmé's (1981) description is at .

The photomontage of the type major (?) worker is collated from https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0907736 .

The photomontage of the type minor (?) worker is collated from https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0907737 .

The photomontage of a media? worker  from Iran is collated from https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=antweb1008073 . The identification may be wrong but it appears to be an intermediate size worker.