Messor Forel, 1890 valid masculine
Messor Forel, 1890b: lxviii [as subgenus of Aphaenogaster] Type-species: Formica barbara (obsolete combination of Messor barbarus), by subsequent designation of Bingham, 1903: 277.
Junior synonyms
Obsolete classifications
Genus Messor catalogues

Emery, 1921c: 43, 68 (Cratomyrmex, Messor); Wheeler, 1922: 802 (Afrotropical Cratomyrmex, Messor); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 136 (Asia); Kempf, 1972b: 257 (Neotropical Veromessor); Smith, 1979: 1364 (North America Veromessor); Bolton, 1995b: 252; Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 318 (Afrotropical checklist).

Genus Messor references

Forel, 1903a: 693 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 278 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Ruzsky, 1905b: 726 (Russian Empire species key); Emery, 1908f: 437 (Palaearctic species key); Emery, 1916a: 143 (Italy species key); Bondroit, 1918: 149 (France & Belgium species key); Arnold, 1920a: 404 (diagnosis); Emery, 1921c: 43, 68 (Cratomyrmex, Messor diagnoses); Santschi, 1927d: 247 (Messor instabilis group key); Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927a: 89 (Central Asia species key); Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 4 (Central Asia species key); Finzi, 1929: 77 (Italy species key); Menozzi, 1933b: 56 (Israel species key); Finzi, 1936: 160 (Egypt species key); Novák & Sadil, 1941: 82 (Central Europe species key); Creighton, 1950a: 158 (North America Veromesor species key); Bernard, 1955a: 360 (Mediterranean Messor structor group key); Smith, 1956a: 36 (U.S.A. Veromessor species key); Bernard, 1967a: 137 (diagnosis, Western Europe species key); Tarbinsky, 1976: 50 (Kyrgyzstan species key); Arnol'di, 1977b: 1640 (former U.S.S.R. species key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 537 (former European U.S.S.R. species key); Collingwood, 1978: 80 (Iberian Peninsula species key); Bolton, 1982: 338 (diagnosis, review of genus, Afrotropical species revision, key); Collingwood, 1985: 248 (Saudi Arabia species key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 38 (U.S.A., Nevada Veromessor species key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 270 (Balkans species key); Dlussky et al., 1990: 215 (Turkmenistan species key); Casevitz-Weulersse, 1990b: 156 (Corsica species key); Ogata, 1991b: 86 (diagnosis, Japan); Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 113 (Bulgaria species key); Arakelian, 1994: 33 (Armenia species key); Bolton, 1994: 106 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 314 (Saudi Arabia species key); Cagniant & Espadaler, 1998: 419 (Morocco species key); Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 14 (Portugal species key); He & Song, 2009: 721 (China species key); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 317 (diagnosis); Cantone, 2017: 210 (brief male diagnosis); Bodlah et al., 2019: 1 (Messor instabilis and Messor himalayanus associations with aphids), 5 (key to Pakistan species (workers)); Salata et al., 2023: 217 (Cypriot species key); Orou et al., 2023: 47 (Iberian Peninsula worker key); Salata et al., 2023: 105 (review of Messor semirufus complex in Greece), 108 (Eastern Mediterranean Messor instabilis species group synopsis), 109 (Greece Messor instabilis group species key); Borowiec & Salata, 2025a: 183 (diagnosis, key to Greece species).

Citations

Extant: 134 valid species, 37 valid subspecies

Fossil: 1 valid species

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