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SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Messor - Messor melancholicus Arnol'di

Messor melancholicus Arnol'di

return to listIran list {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Azerbaijan (Messor melancholicus Arnol'di, 1977b: 1639, simple use of name in description of schelkovnikovi (below); from unavailable name Messor structor Latr. subsp. striaticeps Er. Andre var. melancholica nov., Karavaiev, 1926b: 104) Gouv, Elisabethpo (Elisabethpol Governate, now Ganja), 23.iv.1911, Woronow & Popow - see below.
Junior synonym schelkovnikovi (Messor melancholicus schelkovnikovi ssp. n., Arnol'di, 1977b: 1639, worker & queen; synonymy by Arakelian, 1994: 36) from Turkestan - no images on Antweb (August 2015).


Karavaiev's (1926b) description is at {original description}. Arnol'di (1977b) wrote almost nothing on schelkovnikovi.



{Messor melancholicus}The photomontage of a worker from the type collection is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?name=casent0913198


Oxford University Museum specimens

Messor melancholicus
B Taylor det.
Iran
M Safariyan
24
5.ii.2014
35.78872°N
47.03828°E
Saral field
1800 m
pitfall trap
road side
1
{album}
Messor melancholicus
B Taylor det.
Iran
Torabi
31
04.v.2014
29.71699°N
52.44384°E
1699 m
Beheshti, Shiraz
hand collected
field, on tree; 12:15 h
major worker
1
{album}
Messor melancholicus
B Taylor det.
Iran
M Ghatei
47
14.v.2015
37.16°N
49.25°E
14 m
Shaft, Guilan
hand collected
village farm
1830h
1
{album}
Messor melancholicus
B Taylor det.
Iran
M Ghatei
57
18.viii.2015
37.47°N
49.46°E
-22 m
Anzali, Guilan
hand collected
near beach, on ground
1315h
1
{album}
Messor melancholicus
B Taylor det.
Iran
F Borjali
25
15.iv.2014
35°4844°N
51°1033°E
1850 m
Alborz
hand collected
montane, on ground, 1530h
1
{album}

{Messor melancholicus media}The photomontage is of a major worker from Iran, Beheshti, Shiraz; collector Roshanak Torabi (24).


{Messor melancholicus media}The photomontage is of a media worker from Iran, Saral field; collector M Safariyan (24), Saral Field, 5.ii.2014. Location about 5°S of type location.

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