Protonym: Messor sculpturatus
Authorship Carpenter, 1930: 32, pl. 4, fig. 5; pl. 11, fig. 5
Forms q.
Locality U.S.A. (Colorado, Florissant, late Eocene, Priabonian)
Primary type information Primary type specimen: No. 2920 (MCZC).
Secondary type information Secondary type specimens: Nos. 2921 (MCZC), 10,032 (PMNH), 7850 (Princeton University), 17,017a (University of Colorado), 78,804 (USNM), 11 (Carnegie Museum).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Messor sculpturatus Species Homonym
homonym replaced by Messor draxil Fisher, 2025
Original combination