Messor denticornis laevifrons

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

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Messor denticornis laevifrons Stitz, 1923 junior synonym of current valid taxon Messor tropicorum Wheeler, 1922

Messor denticornis var. laevifrons Stitz, 1923: 148 (w.) NAMIBIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Type-material: 17 syntype workers. Type-localities: 16 workers Namibia (“German Southwest Africa”): Usakos, iv.-vi.1911 (W. Michaelsen), 1 worker Namibia: Grootfontein, 7-11.vi.1911 (W. Michaelsen). Type-depository: MNHU.

Junior synonym of Messor tropicorum: Bolton, 1982: 354; Bolton, 1995b: 255.

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.
Stitz, H. 1923. Hymenoptera, VII. Formicidae. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Land- und Süsswasserfauna Deutsch-Südwestafrikas 2:143-167.

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