Messor donisthorpei

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

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Messor donisthorpei Santschi, 1937 junior synonym of current valid taxon Messor capensis (Mayr, 1862)

Messor donisthorpei Santschi, 1937a: 51 (w.q.) NAMIBIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Namibia (“SW Africa”): W Maltahohe, 1500 m., 12.xii.1934 (K. Jordan). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, NHMB, USNM. Primary type specimens: CASENT0913166, CASENT0913167.

Junior synonym of Messor capensis: Bolton, 1982: 345; Bolton, 1995b: 254.

Citations

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.
Santschi, F. 1937a. Glanure de fourmis éthiopiennes. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 77:47-66. PDF

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