Messor braunsi

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

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Messor braunsi Forel, 1913 junior synonym of current valid taxon Messor capensis (Mayr, 1862)

Messor braunsi Forel, 1913a: 138 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: South Africa: Cape Prov., Willowmore (H. Brauns). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0907742.

Stitz, 1923: 149 (q.)
Status as species: Arnold, 1920a: 413; Emery, 1921c: 73; Wheeler, 1922: 804; Stitz, 1923: 149.
Junior synonym of Messor capensis: Bolton, 1982: 345; Bolton, 1995b: 253.

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. 1913a. Fourmis de Rhodesia, etc. récoltées par M. G. Arnold, le Dr. H. Brauns et K. Fikendey. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:108-147. PDF
Stitz, H. 1923. Hymenoptera, VII. Formicidae. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Land- und Süsswasserfauna Deutsch-Südwestafrikas 2:143-167.
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

Extant: 0 valid subspecies (1 synonym)

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