Messor regalis rubea

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

Catalog › Formicidae › Myrmicinae › Stenammini › Messor › Messor regalis › Messor regalis rubea

Messor regalis rubea (Santschi, 1913) junior synonym of current valid taxon Messor regalis (Emery, 1892)

Cratomyrmex regalis var. rubea Santschi, 1913c: 308 (w.) BENIN. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 6 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Benin (“Bas Dahomey”): (no further data) (E. Le Moult). Primary type depository: NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0913212.

[Misspelled as rubra by Emery, 1921c: 43.]
Subspecies of Messor regalis: Emery, 1921c: 42; Wheeler, 1922: 802.
Junior synonym of Messor regalis: Bolton, 1982: 352; Bolton, 1995b: 256.

Obsolete combinations

Cratomyrmex regalis rubea

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.
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Santschi, F. 1913c. Glanures de fourmis africaines. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:302-314. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

AntWeb AntWiki Google Scholar

Formicidae subfamilies Myrmicinae tribes Stenammini genera Messor species Messor regalis subspecies Messor regalis rubea infrasubspecies

show invalid