Messor denticornis parvidens

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Messor denticornis parvidens Forel, 1910 junior synonym of current valid taxon Messor denticornis Forel, 1910

Messor denticornis var. parvidens Forel, 1910e: 15 (w.) NAMIBIA, SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Namibia (“German Southwest Africa”): Great Namaland, Kubub, 1903 (L. Schultze). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0907748, CASENT0907749. Type notes: Forel, 1910e records other specimens (not syntypes?) from South Africa: Cape Prov., Steckstown (Wartmann).

Subspecies of Messor denticornis: Arnold, 1920a: 413; Emery, 1921c: 74; Wheeler, 1922: 806.
Junior synonym of Messor denticornis: Bolton, 1982: 349; Bolton, 1995b: 256.

Citations

Arnold, G. 1920a. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part IV. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:403-578. PDF
Bolton, B. 1982. Afrotropical species of the myrmicine ant genera Cardiocondyla, Leptothorax, Melissotarsus, Messor and Cataulacus (Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 45:307-370. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Forel, A. 1910e. Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 von Dr. Leonhard Schultze. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. D) Formicidae. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16:1-30. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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