Messor variabilis Kuznetsov-Ugamsky

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Type location Turkmenistan (Messor variabilis Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927a: 94, worker) - see below (non-type images).

Junior synonym Messor macrops (Messor excursionis Ruzsky v. macrops n. var., Santschi, 1927d: 248, worker; synonymy Arnol'di, 1977b: 1646) from Turkmenistan - see https://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0913233.

Kuznetsov-Ugamsky's (1927a) description is at . Santschi's (1927b) description of macrops is at .

The photomontage of a major worker, labelled type but from the Santschi collection, sent to him under the name M. excursionis by W Karavaiev and collected from Gok-Tepe (among the Kuznetsov-Ugamsky locations), is collated from https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0913231 .

The photomontage of a minor worker, labelled type but from the Santschi collection, sent to him by W Karavaiev, is collated from https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=0913232 .