Published December 31, 2010 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Messor uncertain

Description

Messor sp. (cf. M. oertzeni Forel, 1910)

Material: 3?, Zagros Mountais forest steppe, Kurdistan, Saggez (~ 36°14'N, 46°15'E), ~1481 m asl, 2004, leg. Shahin Mostafai; 4 $, Tehran, urban area (~ 35°41'N, 51°25'E), ~1162 m asl, 16.VII.2005, leg. Nasim Vakhideh; 5 $, Mashad, urban area (~ 36°17'N, 59°35'E), ~985 m asl, leg. Nayereh Ghafarian.

Remarks: M. oertzeni is known from the Balkans and Anatolia (Agosti & Collingwood 1987; Atanassov & Dlussky 2002). It belongs to the structor species-group, but reliable determination of many species from this group is impossible before a taxonomic revision is provided.

Notes

Published as part of Paknia, O., Radchenko, A. & Pfeiffer, M., 2010, New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran., pp. 29-38 in Asian Myrmecology 3 on page 32

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2005-07-16
Family
Formicidae
Genus
Messor
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
uncertain
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2005-07-16